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From: Phil Randal
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <664teh$1k$2@usenet76.supernews.com>
   "Mardagg" <mardagg@kalamazoo.net> writes:
>Most tech articles say it doesn't matter until you go above 64MB of main
>memory.. But I still don't see how it can't help under that.. And it's good
>when you do go over the 64MB...

Except that only Intel's HX chipset (and Via's VP-2 etc) support secondary
caching above 64MB.  That's one of the reasons why the HX motherboard is
still the best choice for fileservers.

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Date: 1997/12/05
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