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1 meg L2 cache?

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Yeti101

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Just a idea, I'm sure people have brought it up.... anyway, You can notice a ovious overclock between a 1.6 wille vs. a 1.6 northy.... thats a 256lb L2 cahce vs. a 512 kb L2 cache.... Thats when doubling the L2 cache, SO! With the new rummered 1 meg L2 cache, wouldnt that make the OC's EVEN higher?

Forgive me for my grammar/ stupidity.... Im really tired 😉

Yeti
 
Well, what makes the Northwoods OC so much better than the Willamette cores isn't the extra cache size, but the fact that the Northwoods are manufactured on a 0.13 process rather than a 0.18 process. Basically, the Northwoods are manufactured on a much smoother and more efficient process than the Willamettes.
 
The 256 to 512 was noticebale in some apps as the difference approached 10 percent...

However crazysaint is right...This is not the reason for the oc performance of the northwood...

Sidenote: the prescott which is rumored to possibly have 1mb of l2 cache to counteract the new on die memory controller of the hammer should be the first chip on the new .09 micron process. Each successive drop in size results in a drop of vcore as well. However as size gets smaller gates get smaller and things get more fragile...A possility could be the .09 will not oc at same or better levels then the .13 micron chips...
 
You could set up a Super Socket 7 system with 2 MB of L2 cache, and the K6-2s still wouldn't overclock as much as you wanted them to 🙂
 
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