View Full Version : Change Athlon XP L2 Latency?
[XC] moddolicous
07-31-2005, 06:31 PM
I found a program that changes them for intel, and I was just interested if they made one for Athlon xp? Thanks for any help.
IvanAndreevich
07-31-2005, 07:57 PM
Nope
[XC] moddolicous
07-31-2005, 08:00 PM
No, they dont make one? R u positive?
No one has made one for any AMD cpus afaik....
saratoga
07-31-2005, 09:45 PM
I found a program that changes them for intel, and I was just interested if they made one for Athlon xp? Thanks for any help.
What program did you find? I'd be amazed if it actually does anything. The latency is hard wired into the chips, and has been for many years now.
[XC] moddolicous
08-01-2005, 05:02 AM
What program did you find? I'd be amazed if it actually does anything. The latency is hard wired into the chips, and has been for many years now.
WCPUL2 160 http://www.ocinside.de/index_e.html?/html/links/ocsoft_links.html. Gonna try it out today.
alexio
08-01-2005, 05:15 AM
http://www.ocinside.de/download/l2_speed.zip
[XC] moddolicous
08-02-2005, 10:05 AM
http://www.ocinside.de/download/l2_speed.zip
Thanks, I'll give that a try today. Hopefully I'll notice some difference
What program did you find? I'd be amazed if it actually does anything. The latency is hard wired into the chips, and has been for many years now.
I tried it out yesterday and was pleasently surprised. The computer is alot more responsive then before. It only works on P2 and P3 though. The computer is alot quicker, and I got a nice 400 point boost in sandra benchies.
cantankerous
08-02-2005, 01:13 PM
cool, anything for a64 on this? BTW did you lose any stability playing with this?
saratoga
08-02-2005, 03:26 PM
Thanks, I'll give that a try today. Hopefully I'll notice some difference
I tried it out yesterday and was pleasently surprised. The computer is alot more responsive then before. It only works on P2 and P3 though. The computer is alot quicker, and I got a nice 400 point boost in sandra benchies.
The Katmai P3 was also the last Intel CPU to have configurable L2 cache latency, since it used external SRAM that did not run at core speed. It can be configured so that Intel can adjust the latency for different clock speed processors without having to design a new processor for each clock speed.
All modern Intel and AMD processors have internal cache that runs at a CPU core speed, thus you can't adjust it's parameters. They're literally set by the length of the wires and the number of buffers on the L2 cache wiring.
HARDCORECLOCKER
08-02-2005, 03:36 PM
:D This is hot - maybe someone should write a program for A64...
:toast:
[XC] moddolicous
08-02-2005, 03:44 PM
cool, anything for a64 on this? BTW did you lose any stability playing with this?
No, no stability loss. The only thing I wish I could check is if it affects overclock or not. All I can overclock to with this HORRIBLE Biostar motherboard is 800mhz. (7*115). Tonight I'll try the L2 cache thing on my XP2200 @ 2090.
Thorry
08-02-2005, 03:56 PM
:D This is hot - maybe someone should write a program for A64...
:toast:
Nope it's not so hot, as explained, L2 latency cannot be changed in newer CPU's.
Qkjhfhaiguihfma
08-02-2005, 04:35 PM
so this is pretty much for slot cpus with external cache chips?
Thorry
08-02-2005, 05:09 PM
It's for any chip that has cache not running at the exact same speed as the CPU.