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First post, by pentiumspeed

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Equivalent to what processor? Suppose the motherboard does have L2 cache (external), typically 256K too enabled?

Search online and here turned up little.

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Reply 1 of 4, by rmay635703

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It’s hard to know exactly without testing, generally if l1 is gone you end up around a 386DX level of performance

Disable L2 and you just have a slow 486

Reply 2 of 4, by pentiumspeed

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That is exactly what I have in mind. To create 386-like performance to revisit old times, My first computer that is real-deal was 386DX 25, on slow CHIPS chipset with no cache.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Intel486dx33

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386@20mhz.

You can use a benchmarking tool called “Topbench” to find the speed of your CPU.

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Link:
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/dos-benchmark-pack.html

Reply 4 of 4, by kixs

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rmay635703 wrote on 2022-07-20, 00:14:

It’s hard to know exactly without testing, generally if l1 is gone you end up around a 386DX level of performance

Disable L2 and you just have a slow 486

Well by default 486DX33 is already a slow 486 😉

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