Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron
> processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that
> an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if
> there is more than 64 MB of RAM added.
An old wives tale from the days of the Pentium, so to speak. My computer
(with a Celeron 300 & 128k L2 cache) actually sped up going from 64MB to
128MB of RAM.
> On the other hand I've read that this isn't a problem for PII
> processors and above, even if the cache is smaller than 512 kb.
For 686 generation processors (PPro, PII, Celeron, etc) it's not an issue.
With Pentiums it was.
> I've searched the archives and looked around on the net and can't nail
> this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with this processor/L2 cache
> combination?
Certainly. I do.
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