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Silicon Skum · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 9:29 am Post subject:

Still working on an effecient test for the L2 setting, getting mixed results at the moment. I *will* find a way....

So far it *looks* like the L2 setting will help. More so if the CPU has a larger cache than normal for that group.

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2old2care · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:02 pm Post subject:

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<--------also still looking into this.......I did some timings on some audio editing programs such as Goldwave, and when resampling the exact same Audio file from 8000hz to 44100hz, WITH the l2 setting assigned, i noticed (using a timer of course, although a crude one, only measuring to 1/10th of a sec) an almost 3/4 of a second improvment over NOT having the is setting assigned.......

So far....that one real life (to ME) example of its benefits.......hope this helps...

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Dudes...remember the problemz I wuz having with doom 3...well...each time i follow one of these little tweakz....i notice.....something strange...

My performance increases!!!!!

....wow....who would've believed that...

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Josh · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:32 am Post subject:

Addictive isnt it?

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PhRoZeN_X_ · SirTweaksabit Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 410

Nice setup you have there cla9614 same mobo and chip as me , is that a gig stick or 2x 512 cause dual channel ram in that board kicks @ss. Amd yea Josh it is VERY addictive. PLay the game late at night with the lights off and you'll jump like you have never jumped before

Josh · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 6:42 am Post subject:

I was referring to " follow one of these little tweakz" as being addictive

But hey, same goes for doom!
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PhRoZeN_X_ · SirTweaksabit Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 410

Well i thought once you get the oc bug everyone knows it addictive

mojo1340 · UberTweaker Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 1022

Uhhh....... what about this?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q183/0/63.ASP&NoWebContent=1

2old2care · Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 11:50 am Post subject:

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SecondLevelDataCache

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http://support.microsoft.com:80/support/kb/articles/Q183/0/63.ASP&NoWebContent=1
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JayDubya · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 9:22 am Post subject:

Ok, so has anyone seen a real difference with this tweak?
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Silicon Skum · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I did notice some difference on my AMD 3200+ (512 cache). I left it up as I never saw any drop in performance, and I seemed to shave a few mins of my number cruncers output times. still enabled.

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JayDubya · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:26 pm Post subject:

Sweet. I'll try some number crunching benchies on my barton when I get that thing reformatted. Does anyone know where my xp cd is?
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Silicon Skum · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 1:29 pm Post subject:

ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

check under the bottle of jack....=]

thats where i keep mine...=P
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JayDubya · Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2004 3:41 pm Post subject:

Nope, its not over there >
Which Jack bottle? Could be the Hawkeye bottle or bud light/keystone cans too. *ponders cleaning room but continues to toss things around to look for the disk*

I've got a backup but it just won't boot from the cd. I guess i'll have to find those floppy drives and attempt to boot to the cd via those.
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JayDubya · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:55 pm Post subject:

Rich Soryu · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject:

I noticed a huge difference when I did it. I think this is one of those things that benchmarking can rea without changing that cache. But in real world use, it does make a difference.
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