you should have no problems, i cant imagine where you read that.. i am running 466 celerons with 256MB ram, and its _quite_ fast. it may be true that not all of the memory is cached(i can't say wether it is or not). On older i430TX boards(i have one) they could not cache memory beyond 64MB, i ran(and still run) 128MB on it and it runs quite fast, some people panic and think the system will slow to a crawl, when infact most systems will benefit far more from the additional memory then having less memory that is cached.
chipset is also important, i have a i440BX chipset. nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, ktb wrote: xyf >I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron xyf >processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that xyf >an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if xyf >there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand I've read that xyf >this isn't a problem for PII processors and above, even if the cache is xyf >smaller than 512 kb. I've searched the archives and looked around on xyf >the net and can't nail this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with xyf >this processor/L2 cache combination? xyf >Thanks, xyf >kent xyf > xyf > xyf >-- xyf >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null xyf > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:25pm up 143 days, 10:25, 2 users, load average: 1.91, 1.76, 1.62
