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To: Dan3 who wrote (6512)	8/25/2000 1:42:55 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dan, I've put 2 Gigabytes of RAM on an Abit KA7 board with an Athlon 850. I have read about that board. I believe it is the only one that offers 4 DIMM sockets. Are you using PC-100 or 133? Idealy, I think I will need about 1 GB, so 768 is a good compromise. But so far, I did not populate all the DIMMs. If a 512MB PC-133 Cas-2 with 256 Mbit chips comes out between now and the time my system will go into production, I will buy some of those. You might also consider that, on a server, 512K slow cache may be as good or better than 256K fast cache. I guess it all depends on applications. I think a database server could benefit from larger cache, but since the TBird is the latest and greatest, I went for it. I think at higher clock-speed Athlons, where the L2 multiplier was more than 2, the slow down becomes more significant. Most of the Athlon vs. Tbird I remember seeing were at around 700 MHz, where Tbird still uses (I believe) multiplier of 2. Joe