The cache in a CPU.. is it shared by cores or threads? Idk, im just bored and i feel like asking this question that bothers my mind as im sitting here typing... yeah.
Anyways i was wondering because i just recently bought a Pentium 4 EE 3.2GHz(OC to 3.5GHz) 800FSB(OC to around 875FSB), with 2MB L3 cache. I upgraded from a 3.0GHz P4 with 800FSB and 512KB cache(normally not OC'd because the mobo paried with it was not an OC board and it glitched 3.2GHz+ so i kept it at 3.0Ghz). BOTH have Hyper-Threading, or HT Technology whatever you want to call it. It amazes me that it was a pretty good chunk of a difference this processor made over my old one. So im wondering now if it was that extra cache that made a good difference, and if its shared by cores, in my case i have one on both processors(its a Pentium 4 lolz), or if its shared by the threads(HT creates 2 threads for me yay, when there should have been one =D).. You get it..
Anyways i was wondering because i just recently bought a Pentium 4 EE 3.2GHz(OC to 3.5GHz) 800FSB(OC to around 875FSB), with 2MB L3 cache. I upgraded from a 3.0GHz P4 with 800FSB and 512KB cache(normally not OC'd because the mobo paried with it was not an OC board and it glitched 3.2GHz+ so i kept it at 3.0Ghz). BOTH have Hyper-Threading, or HT Technology whatever you want to call it. It amazes me that it was a pretty good chunk of a difference this processor made over my old one. So im wondering now if it was that extra cache that made a good difference, and if its shared by cores, in my case i have one on both processors(its a Pentium 4 lolz), or if its shared by the threads(HT creates 2 threads for me yay, when there should have been one =D).. You get it..