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Coincidentally I saw some YouTube videos of Tony359, one in particular was of my interest, because it concerns an MB S.7 with broken L2 cache, it can be found here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHfQ6Ecc2c
Why is it interesting?
Apart from the work of searching and troubleshooting the fault, which suggests a possible remedy, for similar problems, at the end it shows the MB with a working L2 cache, and makes a comparison with various bench programs, measuring the difference in percentage, between when it is active and when it is deactivated (0KB), of course each program shows different values, some even no difference or a minimal difference, let's say that some software could make the same scores, while others show improvements of about 20% (approximately).
With this I'm not saying that having or not, a working L2 cache, is the same thing, there is no comparison between Windows with cache and without, here the difference could be relevant, either in the boot time ⏱, or in other situations, speaking of course with the same RAM installed, because maybe a PC with 32 MB and 512 KB, could be slower than a PC with 64 MB and 256 KB (L2 cache)?
AMD 286-16 287-10 4MB HD 45MB VGA 256KB
AMD 386DX-40 Intel 387 8MB HD 81MB VGA 256KB
Cyrix 486DLC-40 IIT387-40 8MB VGA 512KB
AMD 5X86-133 16MB VGA VLB CL5428 2MB and many others
AMD K62+ 550 SOYO 5EMA+ and many others
AST Pentium Pro 200 MHz L2 256KB