Re: 1MB vs 2MB L2 Cache?


"Joe" <Joe@.> wrote in message
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> How does a system with a 1MB vs 2MB L2 Cache affect the normal user?
> Normal in the sense of no gaming, hardly any picture editing and
> mainly just burning a lot of images from the DVD/Video groups.

As a user, you don't need to worry about size of L2 cache - or any other
aspect of the CPU. It all comes down to actual performance. You can use
the CPU charts at Tom's Hardware to compare performance among CPU's.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html
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> Are there any webpages which explain the difference for this question
> and the one below?
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> While I'm at it, newer hard drives are coming out with 16MB caches
> replacing the 8MB standard - What are the benefits of 8 more megs?


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