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Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Oct 2000 12:08:35 -0400
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> I can't remember, but was hoping someone knew right off hand.  Is
> there a memory limitation on a VX motherboard?
> A friend currently has 64 meg RAM and wants to increase it.  He's
> using Win95, but upgrading to Win98SE.   I thought I'd read
> something somewhere sometime about memory and a VX board.  Thanks.

        I believe the limit of the VX chipset is about 128 or 256 MB, however the
chipset only caches the first 64MB. This means that anything above 64MB will
not be level 2 cached. Normally this wouldn't be that huge a problem, but I
believe the way win9x handles memory the performance impact is higher than
the raw numbers would seem to indicate. TTYL

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