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[RLT65]

I have an old skt 7 PC with a K6-200 that I may give away. It currently has a amptron PM-8600 w/ the VXtwo chipset (VT82C585 VXP97). I could put in an Asus TX97 skt7 motherboard with the intel TX chipset. The ONLY advantage I could see in using the PM-8600 board is that the VXtwo probably does not have the 64mb limit on ram caching. What would you do?

BTW, I am NOT going to throw away this system and get her a newer one since it is only an email machine and I do not care about gaming FPS;)

[Midknyte]

The TX cache limit hasn't really shown a significant performance hit in the real world, so that shouldn't be the deciding factor.

http://www.geek.com/sysup/sysup200008/upques219.htm

The PM8600 supports up to 512MB of ram, while the TX97 only supports up to 256MB.

[Peter M]

"VXtwo", aka VIA Apollo VPX/97, has two advantages over the Intel 430TX:

(1) it runs up to 128 MBytes per DIMM side, while the TX is limited to 64. You'll have enough trouble locating DIMMs with the "16x8" technology the VPX runs, getting some "8x8" for the Intel TX is nigh impossible these days.

(2) It supports 75 MHz CPU bus with fixed PCI clock (!) of 33 MHz.

Hence, I'd leave the system as it is. If only for the "if it ain't broken don't fix it" rule.