The SiS 5571, supports a maximum of 1MB of L2 cache, although to the best of my knowledge that can only cache 64MB of system RAM and currently no motherboard manufacturer has taken advantage of the 1MB L2 cache limit. The main reason for the 5571's popularity stems from its support for Linear Burst Mode, a function used in IBM/C`yrix processors for a 2.5% increase in performance.
The 5571 unfortunately doesn't support any enhanced power saving features like the Intel TX chipset nor support for the UltraATA hard disk specification which limit the 5571's competitive nature in today's market, however when it was released it was a sure fire "numero uno" product. It still is a great chipset, although recent contributions from VIA have proved that SiS will have to work much harder to hold onto their share of the market. The 5582 chipset by SiS may prove to recover some of the attention SiS has lost in recent times however...
| SiS 5571 Trinity Chipset | ||
| Common Name | SiS 5571 | |
| Chipset Packaging | Number of chips | Unknown |
| Packaging Type | Unknown | |
| CPU Support | Number of CPUs | 1 |
| AMD CPUs Supported | K5, K6 | |
| Cyrix CPUs Supported | 6x86 (M1), 6x86MX (M2) w/ Linear Burst Mode | |
| Intel CPUs Supported | Pentium, Pentium MMX | |
| Cache | Type | Synchronous Pipeline Burst Cache |
| Maximum Supported Size | 1024KB | |
| Maximum Cacheable DRAM Area | 64MB | |
| Memory | Maximum DRAM Supported | 384MB |
| BEDO DRAM Read Timings (66MHz) | N/A | |
| EDO DRAM Read Timings (66MHz) | 5-2-2-2 | |
| FPM DRAM Read Timings (66MHz) | 5-3-3-3 | |
| SDRAM Read Timings (66MHz) | 5-1-1-1 | |
| Data Path to Memory | 64-bits | |
| ECC Support | No | |
| Hard Disk Controller | Chip | Unknown |
| Busmastering Support | Yes | |
| UltraDMA Support | No | |
| Max. Theoretical Transfer Rate | PIO Mode 4/DMA Mode 2 (16.6MB/S) | |
| PCI Interface | Supported PCI Bus Speeds | 25, 30, 33 MHz |
| Concurrent PCI | Yes | |
| Async. PCI Bus Speed | Yes | |
| PCI Specification | 2.0 (66 MHz max.) | |
| Power Management | PC97 Compliance | No |
| Suspend to Disk | No | |
| HDD Power Down | Yes | |
| Modem Wakeup | No | |
| System Suspend | No | |
| Video | AGP Support | No |
| Unified Memory Architecture | No | |
| Peripheral Support | USB Support | Yes |
| Plug and Play Port | Yes | |
| Write Buffers | CPU-to-DRAM | 16 QWords (?) |
| CPU-to-PCI | 5 DWords (?) | |
| PCI-to-DRAM | 18 DWords (?) | |
| Officially Supported Bus Speeds | 50, 60, 66, 75 MHz | |
| Unofficially Achieved Bus Speeds | 83 MHz | |
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vortmax2 - Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - link
The good ole' days when you could put multiple vendor CPUs into the same motherboard. So simple...PentiumGeek - Thursday, September 1, 2016 - link
This motherboard was on my 1st PC. I was very disappointed when faced with the problem that DIMM and SIMM memory can't work in the same time. I used Pentium 100Mhz CPU on this motherboard :)Amadeus777999 - Wednesday, May 9, 2018 - link
Got an ASUS P2L97 board yesterday and I'm reading through this while DoomII is benchmarking. Good times.rogerjowett - Sunday, May 17, 2020 - link
Does n e 1 know where I can find a Voltage Regulation Module please