Skalabala wrote on 2020-05-05, 10:19:
luckybob wrote on 2020-05-04, 19:35:
That ASUS P5-A board *WITH* the onboard sound has 1mb onboard cache where the non-sound versions seem to have 512kb.
I have not seen any of these 🙁 My one P5AB has sound but 512Kb.
I have seen a photo a few years ago of I think it was P5A with 1Mb cache.
Did you ever have sucess with this?
Also, side question, wonder how hard jt would be to add sound to my p5a boards.
Maybe it was based on a soundcard that way popular and cheap? Could steal the parts from it? And scavanage the ports from a dead mobo…?
Anyway, I’ve embarked on the same mission as you to try to upgrade the cache on both my p5a mobos.
Looks like 4ns chips are the way to go but I can’t find them, and can’t get clear answers on if my 1.06 needs special mods. My 1.04 already has 1mb and a tag chip. Which is another thing I want to upgrade. Maybe a lower ns higher but tag? But which one? I have no idea…
bloodem wrote on 2020-08-09, 10:27:
Socket3 wrote on 2020-08-09, 09:16:
In my tests, with 128mb of ram, a K6-3 performs up to 5% faster with L3 cache (on motherboard) disabled [...]
I have to say, I also heard this urban legend multiple times, and have tested this theory on probably more than 10 motherboards, paired with K6-2+ @ 550 / 600 MHz.
And what I found, was that performance is consistently worse with MB cache disabled (albeit, not by much on a K6-2+). So I'm pretty curious to find out in which circumstances the platform is faster with the MB cache disabled, because for gaming... this is definitely not the case, at least not on the motherboards that I tested.
you’re right, that advice has become a legend around here. And it needs to stop. But it is true in some cases. The problem is it’s not true in all cases. So we need to stop giving that advice. Some setups will see improvement, but many won’t.