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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (37027)	9/14/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570758

Ten, re:<cost of L2 cache on Super7 boards> The most popular board out there is the FIC VA-503+. It costs about $85 now and has 1M L2. The higher quality boards are 50-50 (Asus=512K, Tyan=1M). There doesn't seem to be any correlation between price and cache size. Most of the 512K cache boards have the ALI chipset, which costs maybe $5 more than the VIA chipset, yet the 1M cache VIA chipset boards are generally the same price as the 512K cache ALI chipset boards. As for "wouldn't a larger cache be slower," beyond 1M, YES. A small company, California Graphics, tryed to come out with a 2MB cache motherboard, but AFAIK, its not working yet. The 1M boards all run with the same wait states as the 512K boards. Petz