Tualatin Celeron vs PIII Cache latency question

[Ron_Jeremy]

I was lead to believe that the only difference between these 2 chips (assuming they share the same size cache) is that the PIII's cache latency is set to the faster setting of <b>0</b>, while the Celerons is set to <b>1</b>. Can anyone confirm this?

I have tried to set my 1200 Celeron's cache latency to 0 using WCPUL2 v1.6, but have been unsuccessful as you can see from the error prompt in the link below. Is there a later version of this software available that could possibly help me? What about different software? Or am I just attempting the impossible?

<A HREF="http://ftp.shaw.ca/thano/WCPUL21.jpg" target="_new">http://ftp.shaw.ca/thano/WCPUL21.jpg</A>

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

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[Crashman]

You can't change the cache latency on it, I've tried just about everything. I've found that my PIII 1000 is a bit faster than my Celeron 1.2GHz is games (probably do to faster memory transfers), and at 1125MHz, it beats or matches my Celeron at 1.5GHz.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[juin]

Also At excact Clock FSB cache same hardware, celleron is 7 % slower for unknow reason.

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[Crashman]

In the case of the Tualatin, the Celeron ALWAYS has a cache latency of 1, which could account for that.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[ZER0]

interesting post... i have a tuly cely 1ghz at 1.33 133fsb and sandras cpu test(for what its wort) clocks it equal to a 1.33ghz athlon(non xp). i thought it turned out good for what i paid.

 

[Unolocogringo]

the celerons cache is set to 4/way associative while the P3 is 8/way associative .
Crash have you tried WCPUL2 from H-Oda. This is for setting the latency on p3 chips. Don't have a tualatin to try it on yet.

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[Ron_Jeremy]

Zer0, Sandra is the worst piece of garbage I've ever used for benchmarking. This is the same pos software that told me my Atlas 10KII's/8MB disks were slower than my old 5400 rpm/512K Maxtor disk. Sandra is only useful for useless hypothetical crap.

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

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[Ron_Jeremy]

Rick, like I stated in my post, WCPUL2 is the program I've been (unsuccessfully) using to try & lower the cache latency on my Tualy. I am using version 1.6. Maybe there's a newer version out there to work with Tualatins?

Cheers,

Ron_Jeremy

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[Phelk]

~ i have a tuly cely 1ghz at 1.33 133fsb ~

I'm thinking of doing the same and have a couple of questions...

Are you running the FSB & memory synchronous?
What mobo are you using?
Is it still passively cooled?

Thx

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