`bob boyd wrote:

> At 12:03 PM 2/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >On 18 Feb 98 at 23:40, Ayaz Shaikhzadeh wrote:
>
> ~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> >> Does the type of motherboard hamper/assist the speed of a processor?
> >
> >  A key component of the board is the chipset, which dtermines both
> >features and performance.
> >
> >  Many people prefer an Intel chipset.  The 430TX is their latest for
> >Pentium motherboards, and includes support for UDMA hard drives and
> >SDRAM (which you may want).  But its caching can't handle more than
> >64MB of RAM, which isn't as unreasonably huge as it used to be.
>
> ~~~~~~~~snip~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Ok so I have a Shuttle P5 with the TX chip set and a K6-200.  I'm running
> NT4.0.
> I currently have 2 ultra ide drives and 64mb edo simms. I was getting ready
> to order 2 10ns 64mb DIMMS. I'm looking for a improvement in Photo Shop
> performance and less swap file utilization. Can someone expand a bit on
> this 64mb max thing. Am I stuck with 64 unless I get a new board?
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Not exactly stuck but I think your performance will suffer instead of
improving. More important is the mixing of DIMMs and SIMMs, some boards won't
allow you to do this. For an in-depth explanation of the cache issue go to
http://www.sysdoc.pair.com

HTH

Jose