>When did it come out, though? late, and only in 4th revision of this particular chipset :) Its the exception to the rule. >Hang on. The 430VX was not an earl

>When did it come out, though? late, and only in 4th revision of this particular chipset :) Its the exception to the rule. >Hang on. The 430VX was not an early Pentium chipset. It was a late one. After the "Triton", the 430FX: FX had similar buffers - 82438FX > early Intel chipset for Pentium hardware was the 430NX "Neptune" 2x 82433NX LBX "data path between the host CPU/Cache and main memory", no mention of FPM/EDO in datasheet and only goes down to standard FPM X-3-3-3 timings. Afaik still works with EDO just with no speed difference. >I strongly disagree with your comment about cache. Cache/no cache was huge. Only on chipsets not supporting faster EDO timings. No L2 is not a big deal with EDO because EDO timings are already almost as fast as Async L2 cache (7-2-2-2 vs 3-2-2-2). No L2+EDO https://dependency-injection.com/intel-430fx-triton-l2-cache/ https://dependency-injection.com/intel-430fx-triton-l2-cache... 2% slower in Doom but 8% faster in Quake. Comparison between Async L2 + FPM vs no L2 + EDO would look even better for EDO. PB cache on the other hand was an easy 10-20% bump over Async L2. Now take a chipset that utterly fails with EDO like sis 501 and difference is indeed dramatic https://dependency-injection.com/2mb-cache-benchmarks/ https://dependency-injection.com/2mb-cache-benchmarks/ >No, the type of cache wasn't a big difference I literally linked tests that show otherwise :) Intel datasheets explain why, PB not only allowed 3-1-1-1 cache timings but also unlocked faster ram modes. >modified the startup messages to say "writeback cache" Wasnt PCchips pretty much the only fraud that made boards with no L2 cache, with some other vendors (amptron, kaimei, jamicon) selling same relabeled pcchips? There was a funny case of Octek selling some models plastered with "Dynamic Cache Architecture" stickers while the cache was build into special EDRAM ram, big problem being most of those models shipped with chipset unable to support said EDRAM :) example https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/octek-hippo-vl-2 https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/octek-hippo-vl-2