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Subject: Re: Warning PC Pentium 'Triton chipset' post.
To: steven@msmail.hkg.ingr.com (Steven Davis)
Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 04:09:42 -0700 (PDT)
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> Here is another PC post of people looking for Triton PC`s
>
>
> Triton chips are designed for home and office use and have severe
> limitations:
Well I would agree they seemed to have listened to what "home&office"
people want, more speed less cost!
>
> - they only support memory sizes up to 128 MB, not 256 MB,
Yup true, however on all but a few boards to get 256MEGS your looking at
64Meg strips. I don't even want to know the cost on those, assumeing you
could find one, if your getting 256 megs of ram, I really think your an
Alpha buget with NT.
> - only the first 64MB can be cached, and
Again most boards have 4 ram sockets, and for now 16 meg parts are the
best price for what you get. So for a lot of people this will be ok. If
your really into memeory, gigabyte has a neptune board that has 6 sockets
and can have 512 megs. but really by the time 128Megs of ram is a limit
new motherboards with P6 chips will be out... when your paying a few
grand for ram whats a couple hundred for a motherboard and a chipset.
> - they do not support symmetric multi-processing (SMP) hardware, only
> single processor configurations.
Yeah this was the bigest bummer about the chipset.
>
> Heavy duty applications like CAD and color graphics benefit from all this.
> Hence we stayed with the Neptune chip set. We use the improved Neptune 2
> chipset which gives a wider memory bandwidth allowing for faster memory
> access than the Neptune 1 which was used on some of the earlier 90 MHz
> Pentium TD's.
As you might have guessed I have a Triton based board, with Piplined
Burst cashe, and i find the speed it gives me in aplications over the
neptune to be more of import than the top end ram limits. Also if your
running a DOS cad program good luck getting it to see 256megs of ram, And
unless it's NT based, the silly 640K nonsence is far more limiting than
haveing only one CPU or 128megs of ram.
Only reasion I see to get a neptune over a Triton is for a Dual CPU
running NT. And at that price... it might be better to go Alpha.
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