First post, by theelf
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Hi, im building a 486 PC for my personal collection, and i chose a AB-PB4 motherboard. Is not a bad one, exept some problems works very good, and support my Cyrix 5x86 100mhz CPU without problem
One thing i really curious is about L2 cache, now have 256kb
I did a lot of test and i found the speed gain is almost nothing, for example, Doom without L2 cache give me 67.2fps in a timedemo, and 68.1 in same timedemo with cache enabled! is like nothing! 3dbench, pcbench, quake, etc give me the same, almost nothing difference
im surprise, because in other 486 motherboards i have, L2 cache give me from 10 to 15% differences
Anyways i decide to disable L2 cache, because sadly did not work well if i overclock cpu to 120mhz, the system hang in boot or loading a game or program, but still want to talk about what can happen to the cache... and one more thing, someone knows if a faster cache will work fine wth CPU at 120mhz?
thanks