Reply 20 of 23, by Skalabala
Disabling L3 is always slower. In newer games older games synthetic benchmarks you name it. Especially if you have an ALi chipset with 1Mb cache. The performance gain is clear 😀
Disabling L3 is always slower. In newer games older games synthetic benchmarks you name it. Especially if you have an ALi chipset with 1Mb cache. The performance gain is clear 😀
Skalabala wrote on 2022-05-09, 20:39:Disabling L3 is always slower. In newer games older games synthetic benchmarks you name it. Especially if you have an ALi chipset with 1Mb cache. The performance gain is clear 😀
Every benchmark I've tried has shown that the motherboard cache on my Asus TXP4 lowers memory bandwidth when combined with a K6-3+ CPU (regardless of whether the memory is within the cacheable limit or not). Every benchmark I've tried with my two MVP3 Super 7 motherboards has shown that leaving the motherboard's cache enabled when combined with a K6+ CPU increases performance, though it falls off sharply if you exceed the cacheable memory limitation.
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Yes the TPX4 has slow cache vs the K6+ If your motherboard has 5ns or 4ns cache chips then you can adjust timings to be faster.
I actually want to test L3 performance on win XP, I have seen that XP has superior memory bandwidth when testing with Sisoft Sandra.
Skalabala wrote on 2022-05-09, 20:39:Disabling L3 is always slower. In newer games older games synthetic benchmarks you name it. Especially if you have an ALi chipset with 1Mb cache. The performance gain is clear 😀
I can confirm results both ways. It’s try and find out it seems. Though if ss7 it always seems to be faster to leave enabled.