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2008-02-09 05:48:02
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6996|Riva, MD
I downloaded the trial of Everest Ultimate Edition and I looked in the "Caches" section and saw this for my L2 cache

Maximum Size 1024 KB
Installed Size 512 KB

Does this mean that Intel locked half of the cache on the die (as they did with the Celeron in the days of the Pentium 3)?  Or is it saying that they could've installed 1MB on it, but instead only installed 512KB?
2008-02-09 14:03:19
Defiance
Member
+438|6950

Half an hour this was my first thought:

Lots of CPUs that are made at X clock speed have broken parts, but do function at Y (<X) clock speed. Hence why we can overclock most processors.
Maybe your proc is a higher end proc that's supposed to have more cache, but was cut in half for truth-in-advertising sakes.

Not sure, but if 512k is what your proc should have then you are fine.
2008-02-09 17:34:47
_j5689_
Dreads & Bergers
+364|6996|Riva, MD
Did they ever make a Pentium of any sort with 1MB on the 400MHz FSB?
2008-02-10 07:53:39
max
Vela Incident
+1,652|6846|NYC / Hamburg

_j5689_ wrote:

Did they ever make a Pentium of any sort with 1MB on the 400MHz FSB?
nope, on 400FSB they were 265 or 512 kb.
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2008-02-10 12:37:56
Agent_Dung_Bomb
Member
+302|7015|Salt Lake City

It's not uncommon for things like that to happen.  Your cache isn't a single chunk of memory, but rather many smaller segments; often in chunks of 128K.  If one or more portions of these smaller chunks fail, they can simply disable them and the remaining good chunks can still function.

 

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