A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron > processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that > an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if > there is more than 64 MB of RAM added.
An old wives tale from the days of the Pentium, so to speak. My computer (with a Celeron 300 & 128k L2 cache) actually sped up going from 64MB to 128MB of RAM. > On the other hand I've read that this isn't a problem for PII > processors and above, even if the cache is smaller than 512 kb. For 686 generation processors (PPro, PII, Celeron, etc) it's not an issue. With Pentiums it was. > I've searched the archives and looked around on the net and can't nail > this one down. Can I use more than 64 MB with this processor/L2 cache > combination? Certainly. I do. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein