Question about Cyrix III Samuel

[chinkee]

hi all!! i'm new here http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif
on to my question.......
i heard that Samuel doesn't have L2 cache, does this
make any disserence in terms of performance?
what are it's advantages and disadvantages?
please help!!!
thanks a lot http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

chinkee

[jangolion]

Originally posted by chinkee:
i heard that Samuel doesn't have L2 cache, does this
make any disserence in terms of performance?
what are it's advantages and disadvantages?
please help!!!
thanks a lot http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

chinkee
really... no l2 cache i have never heard that before i know in the beginning computer didnt have an internal cache L1 (on the processor) but they always as far as i can remmember hac an l2 cache(on the mother board near the processor)...... yes cache is very important what it does is try to predict the next move you will make or the next instructions you will give it and store a couple possibilities in the L2. mainly so the cpu wont have to go all the way to memory to get the information. so yes it increases the performance of computer..... hope this helps http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[chinkee]

thanks for the reply jangolion http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Will Rickards]

I think some of the original celerons didn't have any L2 cache... or they could have had very little... but I think they didn't have any. Anyway, they were ssssllllooooowwwww compared to the same speed P3. Cache and what speed it runs at is very important to processor power.

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[ixl]

Yes, the first Celeron had no cache. It was quickly updated. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

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