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First post, by Soupdragon

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Will a program like icache.exe or ice.exe work at disabling the internal cache in a Pentium Pro 200 and what speed would the system be near to if it did?

At the moment I am using icache.exe on a p233 mmx and its working great the system is like a medium speed 486 so early 90s stuff runs well.

The reason I was thinking of switching to a PPro is I have my eye on an atx socket 8 main-board with 4 isa slots and I want to be able to use fastvid as well.

Thanks

Reply 1 of 3, by luckybob

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I would say it would be about 15% slower. factoring in speed and the fact pentium pro sucks at 16bit programs.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Reply 2 of 3, by Soupdragon

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Oh well, thanks anyway bob. Guess I'll same save money and stick with what I have. 🤑

Reply 3 of 3, by swaaye

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Note that PPro only has 16K L1 cache, half that of Pentium MMX and PII. Removing its stupid fast L2 cache might really cripple it.