RAM question

[Jo Dillon]

On Friday 16 November 2001 15:01, Sean wrote:
> On 16 Nov 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Do typical modern motherboards have a cache?  I didn't realize
> > that there was another level of caching beyond the 512 kB or so
> > on the chip.
>
> I don't know if anyone has a board for it but the mot 7450 (G4 rev2)
> supports 8meg of offchip L3 cache. Apple didn't put a slot on the board
> for it but that doesnt mean Mercury or Cisco won't. You could fit
> an entire OS an apps in 8megs.

  There also Alpha systems out there with 8 megs cache, and HP are also known
for using really large caches - I seem to recall hearing up to about 32 
megabytes - on their PA-RISC systems. I'm not sure if that's on the CPU or on
the motherboard though.

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	Jo