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Article #199Re: Octec DCA2 DynamiCache??? Advice and info needed
From: Anssi Saari
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00
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In article <1995May10.030123.2574@rd.scitec.com.au>, johns@rd.scitec.com.au (John Saunders) wrote: :>Alan Smith (cs547091@lux.latrobe.edu.au) wrote: :> :>> I am upgrading my motherboard and am concidering getting an Octek DCA2 :>> motherboard which uses 15nS DymamiCache. Does anyone know much about :>> these? :>I have run Norton SI V7 on 3 486DX2-66 machine, 1 a DCA2 board, the other :>an SiS based VLB board and the third an Intel Saturn based PCI board. :>Guess what, exactly the same speed. Of course it is, Norton SI runs entirely inside the CPU's internal cache. Having all the memory run at 15ns does improve performance but not for applications that rarely access main memory. The DCA2 is nice, but EDRAM is very expensive, you can only put 16M of it on the board and there is no Pentium motherboard which could use it. Anssi
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,ce3f1e9962c7994a X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 163e5a,ce3f1e9962c7994a X-Google-Attributes: gid163e5a,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,ce3f1e9962c7994a X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public From: s106275@cs.tut.fi (Anssi Saari) Subject: Re: Octec DCA2 DynamiCache??? Advice and info needed Date: 1995/05/10 Message-ID: <1/NsvokI5k5X083yn@cs.tut.fi> X-Deja-AN: 102292943 distribution: inet references: <1995May9.034546.13283@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 organization: Tampere University of Technology (CS) mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,latrobe.compsoc,aus.computers.ibm-pc nntp-posting-user: s106275 originator: s106275@korppi.cs.tut.fi