Sisoft Sandra Memory Benchmark better with L2 disabled?

[Carmine_Paterno]

I really wanted to see how far my P3 450 could go, with the L2 cache disabled. It was stable in windows up to 640. No games. I wanted to run a few memory benchmarks, so i restarted @ 608 with L2 cache disabled, and my ALU scores were much much higher about 100 points higher! Usually they were at 357, now at 460. I don't understand, wasn't L2 cache supposed to make memory run faster not slower?

[jmsandrsn]

I'm not sure exactly why but overall, you're system speed is probably slower with the cache disabled. Try running 3DMark or Quale3 and I'll bet your benches are much lower.