Over 64MB RAM with iTX430 chipset: what'll happen?!

Lancelot

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• Apr 14, 2003

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I have an old system here (P233mmx @ 266Mhz/75FSB) running with an Intel 430TX chipset. I understand the iTX has a cacheable area of only 64MB so what'll happen when I stick 128MB SDRAM on her? Will Windows 95/98 get extremely slow or something?

 

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flapperhead

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• Apr 15, 2003

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does the tx chipset use sdram or edo? secondly alot of the older mbs would only take 32 or 64 meg sticks in each mem slot.

 

larva

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• Apr 16, 2003

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Running more than 64MB will disable the L2 cache. You can turn it off in the bios to guage the effect for your application.

 

dude_drew

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• Apr 17, 2003

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I had 200MHz K6 on a Acer V58XA. It said 128MB was cacheable, but when I put in a 128 and 64MB stick, it said 64 was cacheable. I didn't notice that much of a drag.

 

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ctty

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• Apr 18, 2003

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Correct me if I am wrong, but if I recalled correctly, once the memory usage passes 64MB, the OS will slow down since the other 64MB is not cached.