How big of difference: 512kb L2 -V- 1mb L2?

[Kalmah]

How noticable is the performance difference?

I appreciate it.

 

[Ayah]

You should be more worried about clockspeed than the cache. It's not very noticeable.

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: Kalmah
How noticable is the performance difference?

I appreciate it.

512K cache=Northoood
1mb cache=5xx series prescott..

The prescott has several changes from northwood, it performs better in some things and worse in others at the same clock speed. Prescotts run hotter. They have more cache, but the cache is slower. They reach higher clockspeeds, but increased the pipeline lenght to do so. So overall, if I had a choice between at 3.4 northwood or 3.4 prescott..I would take a northwood any day.

 

[tvdang7]

Originally posted by: stevty2889

Originally posted by: Kalmah
How noticable is the performance difference?

I appreciate it.

512K cache=Northoood
1mb cache=5xx series prescott..

The prescott has several changes from northwood, it performs better in some things and worse in others at the same clock speed. Prescotts run hotter. They have more cache, but the cache is slower. They reach higher clockspeeds, but increased the pipeline lenght to do so. So overall, if I had a choice between at 3.4 northwood or 3.4 prescott..I would take a northwood any day.

dang i didnt know any of that. good info

 

[Kalmah]

Good info. Thanks alot.

 

[Furen]

Yeah, Northwood all the way!