Reply 20 of 27, by DonutKing
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My 486 lacks L2 cache and I think it's a bit overrated anyway. It's certainly not terrible without it.
Yeah I think this is true. When I had the M919 it still performed pretty well without the L2 cache. On my 386 I doubled the cache from 128kb to 256kb and didn't notice any difference- even 3dbench didn't score any higher.
Of course, killing the L2 cache on a 386 makes a noticeable difference to performance but I think the onboard L1 cache on the 486 CPU goes a long way to bridging this gap so L2 cache is not as critical.