On 6/19/98, at 3:40 PM, William T Wilson wrote:
>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.
I can niether confirm nor deny what chipset is fundamentally better but The
TX's 64mb limit for cached memory is crime. I have had 2 TX chipset boards
(tyan and QDI) and both have worked without a problem. UDMA is great f you
have the drive to take advantage of it and the TXchipset is fast. IF I
were buying a socket 7 board today I'd go with an VIA chipset to get past
the memory limitations of the TX boards. Check http://www.tomshardware.com
for an overview of the chipsets and thier features. You'll be buyng the
FIC board after your read the VP3 features list :)
scott
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