Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread dman
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:14:20PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | | Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page | references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking | again. | | Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. ... | I have spe

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread David Teague
Thanks to Aaron, Nate, dman, and Gary, especially for the web page references. I'll spend some time looking at that before asking again. Your articles were enlightening, but you don't address my question. I know only 256 or 384 K will be in the cache at anyone time. I also know that the tag ram

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-12 Thread Aaron Traas
I don't know how to answer the question you asked, but there is something you need to consider. Assuming you have an Athlon of the Thunderbird core or later, you have: 128K of L1 cache 256K of L2 cache Most CPU's use an inclusive cache mechanism. What this means is that all data s

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread nate
> > > If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system > will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with > less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount of RAM depends on > the amount of tag RAM. that really depends on what you do. ive run 430TX chipsets with

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 05:05:24PM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: | dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | > | | > | | > | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system | > | will suppport, the system will run more slow

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
dman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: > | > | > | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system > | will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with > | less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount o

Re: Amount of RAM L1 cache on a processor will support

2001-12-11 Thread dman
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:17:30PM -0500, David Teague wrote: | | | If you put more RAM in a computer system than the caching system | will suppport, the system will run more slowly than it would with | less RAM. IF I understand correctly, the amount of RAM depends on | the amount of tag RAM. |