L2 Cache Latency Guide Posted!

[Adrian Wong]

Hello everyone!

Adrian's Rojak Pot has just posted the L2 Cache Latency guide! Here's a clip of the guide :-

"In this article, we will be testing all 15 different L2 cache latencies in order to determine their effect on performance. Optimizers would be interested in just how much performance increases from the reduction of the L2 cache latency. Overclockers, on the other hand, would be interested to know the degree of performance degradation when using a higher L2 cache latency because that will help them determine if the increase in clockspeed made possible by the higher L2 cache latency is worth the loss in L2 cache performance.

But whatever the reasons are, I'm sure you will agree that it would be more than a little interesting to see how those 15 cache latencies fare against each other. So, let's move on now to the benchmarks and their results!"

Adrian Wong
Adrian's Rojak Pot

 

[DaddyG]

IMHO this article is bogus. The L2 latency on P3/C2 and Tbird/Duron can not be changed. H.Odas program is incorrect also.

 

[Adrian Wong]

Hello DaddyG,

You are right. The L2 cache latency of the processors you mentioned cannot be changed. That's exactly what I wrote in the article. However, the L2 cache latency of older processors CAN be changed. They are what the article was written for.

Adrian Wong
Adrian's Rojak Pot

 

[loogie]

Hmmmmm. Rojak.

 

[Hardware]

Kudus to Adrian he always did the biggest review for the search of 0,1% performance!!!
(Think of the infamous Riva128 bios review!)

 

[Shagga]

Adrian - Dunno about you but ya gunna have to do summut about the Blue text on dark grey....my eyes are bad enough thanx. 😉

[EDIT]

Doh!...let the page load FGS Shagga!....I take it back 🙂 looks cool to me....lol!

 

[Adrian Wong]

Hello Shagga,

What Blue text on Grey background? Which page is that?

Adrian Wong
Adrian's Rojak Pot

PS. Oh... now I get it! You didn't load the background picture. 🙂