No,SuperPi is stability testing for me. Do you honestly think I would be bragging about my 32M SuperPi score,when my memory sitting @ 236?
First, all K8 processors have an exclusive cache. It means that data stored in the L1 cache are not duplicated in the L2 cache. Thus, the total effective capacity of the cache memory is the sum of L1 and L2 caches. Second, the L1 cache of K8 processors is rather large by itself, 128 kilobytes. Third, each K8 CPU has an integrated memory controller, which helps to reduce the memory access latencies in comparison to processors that communicate with the memory via the chipset. That’s why the reduction of the L2 cache doesn’t affect the performance of K8 processors as dramatically.
Here is a chart on the Influence of L2 Cache.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...on-2600_5.html
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