First post, by mwdmeyer
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Hi Guys,
I've recently purchased a 486 system and am working on upgrading and tweaking it.
I've noticed after making some tweaks to the L2 memory settings in the BIOS cachecheck says that the system doesn't have any L2 cache, even though the latency/throutput seems better. Any ideas? I've attached some screenshots.
Current Specs:
Intel 486 DX4/100 Override
256k L2 cache (maybe!?)
32MB Ram
S3 Trio VLB 1MB
Sound Blaster 16 CT2230
ISA IO Controller
ISA SMC Network
250GB IDE HDD (running as 500mb currently)
Running DOS, Win 3.11 & Windows 95.
My current goal is to see how fast I can get Starcraft running on it. So far it's been ok in a 1v1 game but obviously slow.
The specs above already include some upgrades I did (more ram & S3 vga card).
Going forward I'm thinking about an AMD 5x86 133, maybe VLB IO/IDE Controller, Extra 1mb on the S3 card and maybe more L2 tweaks if that helps.
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