Disable L2 Cache on MB for Celeron 366@550Mhz

[todays]

I was playing around with the bios on my P2B-F, tweaking. I though I would disable L2 it in the bios. Wow. My memory scores in Sandra 2000 went from 313 mb/sec and 358 mb/sec to 334 and 359 mb/sec. I guess the computer doesn't have to try to see if there is any L2 there anymore. I was also tweaking my memory Micronics PC100 CA2 to 2, 2, 2. Anyone have any more ideas on how to speed this thing up.

It was a fluke. I don't know what is causing it. I ran Sandra 2000 Professional and now get 313, 378 with it on. Go figure. That is with the L2 on.

 

[BurntKooshie]

enable the L2 Seriously, there is L2 there. Its ondie, not on the motherboard. As to why you are getting higher scores without the L2 enabled, that's an enigma to me. Try a screen saver like this one and see how the FPS go with/without the cache. Try a myriad of other programs too. NEVER rely upon one benchmark.

 

[Ulysses]

Overall, todays, while I'm sure there is some obtuse reason for those SiSoft memory scores with the L2 cache disabled, you really should rely more on the SiSoft overall performance benchmarks (I've forgotten what they are called), which should show a slowdown without the cache enabled, when changing BIOS settings.

Generally, lower CAS/RAS settings are better - but again, you should look at the benchmarks that measure overrall performance.

 

[AndyHui]

Cutting the L2 cache out by disabling it cuts your performance to the level of a Pentium MMX 233....it's really bad and not worth it. The original Celerons had no L2 cache and everyone knows how bad they were.