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To: Investor A who wrote (23006)	1/16/1998 4:39:00 PM
From: SC	Respond to of 33344

Jim, The only socket-7 chipset from intel that can cache >64MB is the 42830HX set. The VX chipset is also limited to 64MB cacheable area. To make matters worse, Windows loads from the top of memory down so it loads in the uncached area of memory if you are running >64MB of ram. The asus P55T2P4 board, based on the HX chipset, is an excellent board and the optional tag ram chip that allows caching >64MB to the board limit of 256MB only costs $12-$15. I am running a rev 2.6 P166+ M1 with 128MB of memory on this board at home. I also have a Diamond Monster 3D video card (so quake runs just fine) For applications like Adobe photoshop there is no such thing as too much memory (photoshop runs just fine on this system as well). At work I am running the same cpu on an epox p55tv (vx chipset) with 64MB of memory. I didn't really notice the difference in memory until I upgraded to explorer 4.01. This has transformed Win95 into an even greater memory hog (may be an indication of what we are in for with win98). Memory is cheap cram as much into your system as you can! sc