On Fri, 8 May 1998 08:43:46 -0400, in article
<[log in to unmask]>, you wrote:

>        Almost right, cache amount does determine amount of memory it can cache,
>but there is one thing you are missing, there is also a tag SRAM involved,
>and it is the final determiner of
>the amount of memory cachable. Now I don't know the numbers, but remember
>the HX chipset? Most
>motherboards with the HX chipset had 512K cache, capable of caching 64 megs,
>but by adding a send tag SRAM chip the chipset could cache up to 512 megs,
>so there are three determiners of
>cachable memory, the chipset (or in the case of the Pentium II the processor
>as well), the amount of cache, and the amount and type of tag SRAM. TTYL

Sorry, but not 100 percent true.  Some of them didn't need the tag chip at all.

Lance