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

[Vernon LeMoignan]

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.
>
>

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.