First post, by Moogle!
Does anyone know of a program to check the staus and functionality of the L2 cache on the motherboard? I want to make sure the cache on my DOS machine is being utilized.
Does anyone know of a program to check the staus and functionality of the L2 cache on the motherboard? I want to make sure the cache on my DOS machine is being utilized.
memtest86? Might be too new though...
1+1=10
Displays it as being unavailable, so yeah, too new.
There is CHKCPU, but it only tells me about the L1 cache.
Use cachechk
Are you curious if your socket 3 mobo has fake cache? 😉
My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327
wrote:Use cachechk
Are you curious if your socket 3 mobo has fake cache? 😉
Nope. It's real alright. Though one bank came from one baord, the second bank came from another, and the tag came from a third. It's reading 512k at the boot screen, but I want to know if it is working.
wrote:wrote:Use cachechk
Are you curious if your socket 3 mobo has fake cache? 😉
Nope. It's real alright. Though one bank came from one baord, the second bank came from another, and the tag came from a third. It's reading 512k at the boot screen, but I want to know if it is working.
I wonder if it's any performance bost to upgrade the cache to 512k on a socket 3 mobo..would be interesting too see a benchmark
My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327
POVRAY for DOS would be a good benchmark I suspect, as might any app that makes use of the INTEGER and FLOATING POINT aspects of the CPU.
Anyway, I tried that CacheCHK, and it read 512k too. SO I guess we'll leave it at that.