Reply 20 of 27, by Sphere478
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Repo Man11 wrote on 2022-09-16, 19:23:I've just recently had my first ever experience with cache modules. I recently purchased an AT case that had a PCChips M520 in it. They joke about "Troll builds" here, but this thing was one in real life, and I feel sorry for the person who had to use it. It had a K5 PR133 (100 MHz) chip, 128 megabytes of EDO, an empty cache slot, and fake cache on the board (so no L2 at all). Even by the standards of the time, this thing was slow.
I have a PCChips M507 that I'm not using (it's nearly identical to the M520 except it has the FX chipset FX instead of VX). It has a cache module installed, so I borrowed it thinking it would work for sure in such a similar motherboard, but it in fact did not, so I still had no L2 cache. I had to buy one on Ebay that was a pull from a Compaq and it did work. But it's touchy - I had the FSB set to 75 Mhz to get 188 MHz from the 233 P55 I stuck in it (single voltage motherboard so it's overvolted) and with no L2 this had been perfectly stable; add the cache stick, and it nuked Windows so badly that I had to reinstall. But at 66 MHz FSB it has been perfectly stable, and a major improvement in the system's speed.
In the future I'd like to upgrade the board with a K6-3 450 with an add on VRM. Does Necroware have a store?
I made an adapter for those btw, check my pcb projects.
Omg, that system sounds amazing. Please post more pics and do some benchmarks that thing is a treasure for all the wrong reasons lmfao