On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Joe Nestlerode wrote:
> "Vendor A" has an FIC VA503+ motherboard, w/ an AMD K6 300MHz MMX
> processor, VIA Apollo VP3 chipset and 1 Mb on-board cache for $259.
This is a much better chipset than the Intel 430TX. The TX (the T stands
for "Terrible") has SDRAM support, USB ports, and UDMA IDE controllers but
not much else going for it. The VP3 doesn't have all the whiz-bangs but
is a much better chipset fundamentally, and it can cache more than 64MB of
RAM and (as you noticed) can hold up to 1MB of cache. I don't know
whether it supports SDRAM or not. I don't think it does but I could well
be wrong on that. Under Linux cache performance is very helpful but
SDRAM even more so. Of course if you're not planning on putting SDRAM in
the system then who cares? :)
Neither board will have any problems where it just won't work (although
UDMA is always a little bit shaky). So don't worry about that.
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