Here's some information I found on one of the 3Dfx sites I visit. The poster (whose english gets a bit confusing at at times) talks about cacheable ram on SS7 boards:
click here
Maybe this info is already posted somewhere on this site... can't remember. Any comments, does this trick work for Alladin owners?
Cacheable area on ALI chipsets
Cacheable area on ALI chipsets
ASUS P5A-B rev 1.04 (bios 1011 beta 02)
AMD K6-2+ 500
256 Mb RAM
3Dfx Voodoo 4 4500
Maxtor 6Gb HD
LG 52x CD-RW
SyQuest EZ 135 internal drive
D-Link DFE-530TX+ NIC
Generic PCI Soundcard
Lots of stickers...
AMD K6-2+ 500
256 Mb RAM
3Dfx Voodoo 4 4500
Maxtor 6Gb HD
LG 52x CD-RW
SyQuest EZ 135 internal drive
D-Link DFE-530TX+ NIC
Generic PCI Soundcard
Lots of stickers...
RE: Cacheable area on ALI chipsets
Interesting; but don't ask me if he is correct in stating that the Alladin V chipset can only handle cacheing 128 meg. I thought that "Tag Ram" had some influence on how much ram you can cache, and that the Alladin V was better in that regard than the MVP3.
Would be interested to hear a definitive answer about all this as I have a number of both Alladin V boards and MVP3 boards, and am not entirely sure which to use.
Would be interested to hear a definitive answer about all this as I have a number of both Alladin V boards and MVP3 boards, and am not entirely sure which to use.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
Re: RE: Cacheable area on ALI chipsets
i can remeber all versiosn before revision 'e' of the aladin 5 chipset were buggy... so that external tag rams habe to be used and the caching area was limited... with revision e the are was extended to 256 mb (or perhaps even 512mb? i'm not sure)
Jim wrote:Interesting; but don't ask me if he is correct in stating that the Alladin V chipset can only handle cacheing 128 meg. I thought that "Tag Ram" had some influence on how much ram you can cache, and that the Alladin V was better in that regard than the MVP3.
Would be interested to hear a definitive answer about all this as I have a number of both Alladin V boards and MVP3 boards, and am not entirely sure which to use.
Re: RE: Cacheable area on ALI chipsets
...or, simply use a processor with own 2nd level cache on die... so boarduncached regions of memory (over 128mb) are cached by processor...
i think it works up to 1gb...
i think it works up to 1gb...
Anonymous wrote:i can remeber all versiosn before revision 'e' of the aladin 5 chipset were buggy... so that external tag rams habe to be used and the caching area was limited... with revision e the are was extended to 256 mb (or perhaps even 512mb? i'm not sure)
Jim wrote:Interesting; but don't ask me if he is correct in stating that the Alladin V chipset can only handle cacheing 128 meg. I thought that "Tag Ram" had some influence on how much ram you can cache, and that the Alladin V was better in that regard than the MVP3.
Would be interested to hear a definitive answer about all this as I have a number of both Alladin V boards and MVP3 boards, and am not entirely sure which to use.
Cthulhu8u; you started this one, so I am going to redirect you to another one of yours from some time back: -- "128 to 256 megs? Asus P5A-B". In it you will find some posts by "nk". He did some research on the topic, which from the look of it, is more definitive than anything else I have seen on the subject. You will find the links that he posted on both the first and second page of the topic. You will also find a link posted by a "Guest" for an unofficial Win98 service pack that enables you to run some enormous amount of ram, (upwards of 4 Gig), under win98, but I am darned if I can find where I read that part. In addition you will find a link posted by "Mr2Di4" that has information on the topic.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
Re: RE: Cacheable area on ALI chipsets
He's right. Most reasonable way, is turning off m/b onboard L2 cash, and activating write allocation feature of k6-2+.Anonymous wrote:...or, simply use a processor with own 2nd level cache on die... so boarduncached regions of memory (over 128mb) are cached by processor...
i think it works up to 1gb...
Anonymous wrote:i can remeber all versiosn before revision 'e' of the aladin 5 chipset were buggy... so that external tag rams habe to be used and the caching area was limited... with revision e the are was extended to 256 mb (or perhaps even 512mb? i'm not sure)
Jim wrote:Interesting; but don't ask me if he is correct in stating that the Alladin V chipset can only handle cacheing 128 meg. I thought that "Tag Ram" had some influence on how much ram you can cache, and that the Alladin V was better in that regard than the MVP3.
Would be interested to hear a definitive answer about all this as I have a number of both Alladin V boards and MVP3 boards, and am not entirely sure which to use.
RE: new to this site
About what? Re turning off cache, not a good idea. That much has finally been settled.
Superpuppy 3
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card
K6-3+ 450 ACZ (6x100)
DFI K6BV3+/66 Rev B2 (2 Meg) w/ 2x28mm Chipset Fans
2x256 Meg PC 133 Hynix SDRAM
1x 20G Maxtor (7200)
2x 80G Maxtor (7200) Ducted w/ 2x486 Fans Mount
52/24/52/16 LG CDR/RW/DVD
8/4/3/12/24/16/32 LG Super Multi
ATI 9000 aiw Radeon AGP
SB Audigy 1 MP3 Sound
CMD 649 IDE Controller
NEC USB 2 Card