nemrod> remember previous screenshots of cpuz showing a L3. As I mentionned, cpuz does not look for L3 on AMD, so this information was wrong. Everest does look for L3, and therefore there is nothing irrelevant in displaying one. A latency test would tell if L3 is really activated (and what its latency is).

Lightman> Asynchronous refers to a cache design. AFAIK, K8 also uses an asynch L2.