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"justme" <nospam@spamest.com> wrote in message
news:OS2Fc.11498$IX4.975763@twister.tampabay.rr.com
> L2 cache has been a part of the processor die for several generations
> of Pentiums. Don't remember exactly when that happened but there is
> no separate chip or board for the cache.
>
> "Kelly Cotter"
> <"deletethis"kelly.cotter@*deletethis*blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:qv1Fc.1550$XJ7.12997774@news-text.cableinet.net...
>> "mm" <mm@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:314F3949-166A-4B9D-B855-AA4F7C842816@microsoft.com
>>> i bought asus barebone terminator 2 with upgraded 1gb ram.
>>> problem is that i`m having just 512. BIOS says that in L1 i`m having
>>> 8 mb and in L2 - 512mb. windows detects just 512.is there anything
>>> that i can do myself ? thx`s for any help.
>>
>> The standard Northwood P4 core contains 8KB of L1 cache (closest to
>> the CPU), this small amount of memory has a very high read speed
>> designed to pipeline data into the processor. Write speed is very
>> slow with the idea that it would rarely need to be written to. L2
>> cache is 512KB with an almost equal read and write speed.
>>
>> L1 and L2 are levels of cache memory in a computer. If the computer
>> processor can find the data it needs for its next operation in cache
>> memory, it will save time compared to having to get it from random
>> access memory. L1 is "level-1" cache memory, usually built onto the
>> microprocessor chip itself.
>>
>> L2 (that is, level-2) cache memory is on a separate chip (possibly
>> on an expansion card) that can be accessed more quickly than the
>> larger "main" memory
>>
>>
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DOH
i copied and pasted an old doc.
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