Hi,
I know that the VX chipset only allows for 64MB cacheable memory but I couldn't find any info on what happens when you add cache on a COAST module. I recently upgraded my FIC PT-2006 motherboard to a full 512K of cache and wanted to know, if this will help or not? Any irst han experience?
Cheers
You gain some performance going from 256kb to 512kb, but you can't cache more RAM than 64MB.
Benches going from 256kb to 512kb can be seen here on 430FX which is very similar in terms of performance (look at ASUS P/I P55TP4N which gained 1% performance increase in VGA games). Generally since you're using Pipeline Burst cache there is almost no difference between 256 and 512. More to gain on async DIP:
according to the data list the 430vx seems to support up to 512kb l2 cache, 8big tag, and only write back mode(which takes a tag bit). so it appears to have only 32mb cacheable with 256kb l2, and 64mb with 512kb l2. did i get it wrong?
