Reply 20 of 48, by Jasin Natael
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Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-10-04, 20:45:Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-10-04, 19:09:Con 2 botones wrote on 2021-10-04, 18:45:K6-2+ and k6-3 dont care about “Cacheable RAM Size”, do they?
Because if they do, MVP3 chipset prefers 128MB to 256MB (when the onboard L2 cache is 512Kb).If Blood II is the only game you are experiencing weird performance, then the above makes even less sense.
You will get different opinions on this. Phil's tests show that they do care but very, very little.
Myself I have a SiS5598 chipset and 512k of cache and I find that 128MB performs slightly better on my setup for whatever reason. It is minimal however. YMMV
Good to know, thanks. I also own a SIS5595+Sis530 chipset based motherboard (ASUS P5S-VM). I would like to add a K6-2+ or K6-3, but they are not easy to find or relatively expensive when they show.
If "very, very little" means 1 or 2 FPS when it comes to gaming, then I guess it would be better to keep 256MB for overall system performance. If it means around 5 FPS penalty...hmm I would stay with 128MB (especially because I only use vintage PCs for gaming).
Here is the link to his video and the graphs as well. Worth a watch if you are considering finding a + CPU.
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/amd-k6-2-vs- … -vs-k6-iii.html