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Relearning 386 486 questions

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First post, by Vintage85

Posted on 2020-04-21, 02:34

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My motherboard is a mitac IB-4033 running 64kb chache and I'm upgrading to 256k will this help performance? I currently have 8 mb ram and an intel I486DX 33mhz!

Reply 1 of 2, by Caluser2000

Posted on 2020-04-27, 18:25

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What do you intend to run on it?

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Reply 2 of 2, by jheronimus

Posted on 2020-04-28, 08:16

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Not really. Additional L2 cache on a 486 doesn't so much improve performance as it allows use to cache more RAM, and I don't think adding more RAM will help a DX33. From what I understand, the difference between 64K and 256K will be nowhere close to the difference between 0k and 64K.

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