Re: Intel I440GX+
From: Scott Likens (damm_at_yazzy.org)
Date: 11/07/03
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To: rhett@alasir.com Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:10:42 -0800
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 21:09, RMH wrote:
> Roberto de Iriarte wrote:
> >
> > Scott Likens wrote:
> >
> > >On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 03:27, Tom wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Scott Likens wrote:
> > >>
> > >>...
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Onboard SCSI, 1gig of ECC, dual P2-450's. Never had this problem
> > >>>before.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> I hope you are using P3s, or Xeon CPUs not P2s, since P2s are not able
> > >>to cache memory above 512MB, which means that things will be real slow.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >No, Dual P2 Xeons.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Hmmm ? Are you sure ? I own an L440GX+ and Xeon's do not fit on it. You
> > might have either
> > an MS440GX or a C440GX, the former being a workstation board (with AGP),
> > the later an entry level server board
> > if there are PII Xeon CPU's on it.
>
> Only first PIIs had L2 cache which was unable to store data located
> beyond 512Mb memory boundary (233-300MHz, Klamath), and some of them
> even didn't support ECC for L2 cache. All the next PIIs (333-450MHz,
> Deschutes) had L2 cache with ECC, capable of all 4Gb. So PIIs are
> not so bad as some people may think. Besides, L2 cache of PIIXeons
> and some PIIIXeons (Drake & Tanner) is slow because it is off-core,
> regardless of running at full core speed.
>
> ---
> Regards,
> Rhett
>
Also to note, that now the computer boots again with the madt.c 1.4.4
Thanks.
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