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The technical manual that comes with the motherboard should tell you
how much cacheable ram it can support. Mine says 64Mb with 256K cache
and I think that's pretty typical. Also, by checking yourself you
bypass the problem of whether your dealer knows what he or she is talking
about.

Hope this helps. 

adrian@vw.maths.monash.edu.au (Adrian Gentle) writes:
> 
> I know this isn't strictly linux related....
> We're in the process of buying a new machine, which will
> be used largely to run linux - and I have heard that some
> systems can slow down as more memory is added if the 
> cache isn't sufficient.
> 
> We're looking at 64M of RAM, and as usual getting conflicting
> messages from different shops.  256k cache on the chip is the 
> minimum, but I was after 512k.  Is this necessary/recommended?
> The remaining 256k seems to live on the motherboard - but some
> shops claim that you can't put it on the m/b (I assume this
> says more about their m/b's than the cache!).
> 
> So do I need 512k?  Should it live half on the m/b and half on 
> the chip?
> 
> Thanks for any help...
> Adrian.
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