On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 09:39 AM, FrankG wrote: > So how important is L3 cache anyway? > Looks to me its only a 2-3% speed advantage?! > Maybe for DV and 3D but is it necessary for 2D photoshop work? > You can judge a little by the new 12" Powerbook. It has no L3 and is comparable to 1GHz with. The difference is that it has very fast memory. On our cubes, with relatively slow memory the difference should be much more significant.