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Subject: Re: First test of AMD's Barton XP 3000+

Author: David Hanley

Date: 10:49:01 02/11/03

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>Well, actually he made a pretty good guess. In tests I've found that faster cpus
>actually aren't affected much at all by L2 cache size.

I'd call that a massively unfounded assumption.  It all depends on your memory
access patterns--a fast CPU hitting main RAM non-stop is a waste of electricity.

dave




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