[G4] To buy or not to buy? This is my question....

[Kunga]

I found the evidentiary page that refutes your supposition Vern.

<http://macspeedzone.com/html/hardware/machine/comparison/desktop/ 
power_mac/index.shtml>

The dual 1.25 G4 w/2 MB L3 cache each almost always beats the pair with  
1MB L3 cache each by a significant margin in this variety of tests.

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> On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 01:18  PM, Kunga wrote:
>
>> Good points Vern. I agree. For me the booting into 9 and 2MB cache  
>> are worth more than they may be to others. You are probably right for  
>> most. I saw benchmarks that indicated the 2MB L3 cache made a big  
>> performance difference - sometimes huge. But I can't cite any now for  
>> lack of memory where.
>>
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 12:53  PM, Vernon LeMoignan wrote:
>
> The info I got was from Barefeats which referenced a a powerlogix  
> white paper comparing DDR and SDR L3 and various sizes.
>
> http://www.powerlogix.com/press/releases/2002/020826.html
>
> from this page click on the "L3 Cache performance: DDR vs SDR?"
>
> page 8 summarizes their findings.
>
> Vern.