First post, by soviet conscript
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I'm the seemingly unfortunate owner of a VLB/PCI 486 motherboard that has completly and utterly fake L2 cache. even has the big "write back" chips that do nothing but look pretty. I was pretty upset at first that this was the case as its acually a nice motherboard and I havnt had any issues with it and dispite the missing L2 cache its acually been stable and speedy for me. So what i'm asking is, is it really that horrible if a board is missing the L2 cache. besides the obvious point of the deception and dishonesty does the non cache make it a terrible board to use?
my board has a pretty nice graphical BIOS, VLB, PCI and ISA slots. I'm running 64MB of EDO RAM, an AMD 133mhz 5x86 CPU and a PCI Ark Logic video card with 2mb of RAM and the machine performs very well.