Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PentiumII's. | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:27:53 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Erik Corry) |
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> How does it comapre to a PPRO 200? :)
Unlike the PPRO it can't handle more than 512MB. Not that much of a problem as Linux-86 can only handle slightly less than 1GB according to a recent thread here. See <http://www.heise.de/ct/art_ab97/9708020/> if you understand German. The problem is the level 2 cache, which corrupts data for machines with more than 512MB. If you switch off the 2nd level cache it works, but is dog slow. Just switching off the 2nd level cache above 512MB doesn't work, as it then switches off the 1st level cache, too, for that area.
It's pretty much impossible to find a 586 chipset that can cache more than 512MB (see another article in the paper version of the same magazine, c't 8/97), so if you need more you need either a PPro or a RISC processor.
-- Erik Corry erik@arbat.com http://inet.uni-c.dk/~ehcorry/
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