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asdf_lucasnutz

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• Sep 1, 2002

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hey guys, i was just wondering, if i could do somekind of upgrade to de L1 or L2 cache in some way? if it is possible, how?


thanks


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steveyboy

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Thats impossible

 

Crash893

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im going to go out on a limb and say no you cant

from what i understand the l1 l2 cache is on the die its self or close to it

 

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yeah it's on die, and it runs at the same speed as your chip too.. so if you have a 1.53 ghz xp it's running 1.53 ghz! That's some fast memory

 

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The only chip you can modify the L2 cache on is a mobile Athlon 4 (Duron)....The cache is in fact there, however it's been disabled down to 64KB or 128KB from the actual 256KB. It can be modified by closing all the L9 bridges and manipulating the L2 bridges. Closing all L2 will enable all 256KB of L2 cache.


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steveyboy

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wow that sounds like a pretty cool trick

 

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I believe it was done, so that the chip eats less juice.

 

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L1 cache has been on die either allways, or since at least 486 CPU's. If you have an old enough computer, then you can sometimes upgrade the L2 cache, because it was on the motherboard, rather than the CPU. I set my mom up with an Asus board that came with 256K L2, and a slot where you can add another 256K. Moving the L2 cache "on die" made for a big boost in performance.
For more info, read The Fundamentals of Cache.

 

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What bout the T-Birds. Anyway to beef up the L2 cache?

 

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Just thought I'd put in another Matrix avatar [bump].

 

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grunjee said:

Just thought I'd put in another Matrix avatar [bump].

Click to expand...

And that has what to do with this post.

 

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repo man11 said:

L1 cache has been on die either allways, or since at least 486 CPU's. If you have an old enough computer, then you can sometimes upgrade the L2 cache, because it was on the motherboard, rather than the CPU. I set my mom up with an Asus board that came with 256K L2, and a slot where you can add another 256K. Moving the L2 cache "on die" made for a big boost in performance.
For more info, read The Fundamentals of Cache.

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athlon slot a "classic" had 512 off die cache