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First post, by Baoran

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I bought a 386 motherboard and I got it in the mail today. The motherboard seems to be KMC A419-8. I noticed that only half of the 8 cache slots are filled with chips.
Since I don't have any kind of manual for the motherboard, I don't know if I need to change any jumpers on the motherboard if I filled the rest of the cache slots with same cache chips.
Also I don't know how much of a difference in performance filling rest of the slots would make. There are quite a bit of jumpers on this motherboard and some of those jumpers are right next to the cache chips.
I would appreciate any advice.

Reply 1 of 2, by Anonymous Coward

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In my experience, all 386 and 486 motherboards require jumper changes if you upgrade the L2 cache.

The performance increase will not be that large.

"Will the highways on the internets become more few?" -Gee Dubya
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