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07-05-2007
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| Administrator | CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista How to Set Vista for the CPU L2 Cache Memory Size |
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12-06-2007
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| hello KiDdy | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista My specs is Core 2 Duo T7300 @ 2 GHz, L2 Caches with 4096 KBytes(shown in CPU-Z 1.42). So I just set 1000(Hex)? |
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12-06-2007
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| Administrator | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista niGht kiD, 1000 (Hex) would be correct for a 4096 (4 MB) L2 cache. See you CPU specs here at Intel: http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA45 or http://www.intel.com/distributed/modules/sitelets/core2duo_spec.htm Shawn |
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02-03-2008
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| Newbie | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista setting this parameter in Vista will do nothing, because according to microsoft, when there is 0 in SecondLevelDataCache , HAL on startup detects the appropriate setting... |
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02-03-2008
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| Administrator | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista Hi PietroR, Welcome to Vista Forums.  Yes, this is true. However, if Vista fails to retrieve the CPU L2 cache size from the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) for some reason, it will use a default CPU L2 cache size of only 256 KB. This will most likely be less than what your CPU actually has. It can cause a slight performance drop if this happens.  Shawn |
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02-15-2008
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| Newbie | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista Dear friends, As in preamble of this thread is mentioned: it is only useful for computers with direct-mapped L2 caches. Pentium II and later do not have direct-mapped L2 caches. If your computer has Core... processor, you can write any number from 0 to all Fs to this register, nothing happens. |
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02-15-2008
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| Newbie | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista anyhow, in my experience, most of the "tweaks" are eighter useles, or dangerous - like switching off the last access timestamping on ntfs, etc. those are all rather old tweaks from old times  |
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02-17-2008
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| Technophile Wannabe | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista Hi Brink, I was just wondering if this would be worth my while? When you have time let me know what you think. Thanks a lot. I appreaciate your time.Bare Foot kid  Last edited by Bare Foot Kid; 02-18-2008 at 10:46 AM.. |
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02-17-2008
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| Administrator | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista Hi Bare Foot Kid, Usually this will never make a difference. Only if for some reason Vista fails to read the HAL from the CPU. Even then, it would be a very low performance hit. Shawn |
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02-17-2008
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| Technophile Wannabe | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista Hi Brink. I thought that was what you were saying. That's why I asked first. I do thank you for your response. Later, Bare Foot Kid  |
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02-17-2008
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| Administrator | Re: CPU L2 Cache Memory setting in Vista Your welcome. |
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