looking to buy a laptop and I have a choice of a duel core with processor cache is 256kb+256kb L2 Cache or a 2MB L2 Cache. What does all this mean? Itend to have many things going at once.
2006-10-17 13:25:26 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
and why is bus speed important one says up to 1600MHz the other is 533Mhz front side bus. It's all chinese to me. Help!!
2006-10-17 13:30:00 · update #1
Bigger is better. Get the 2 Mb.
Small L2 cache = CPU bottleneck = slow performance
Large L2 cache = happy CPU = fast performance
2006-10-17 13:29:20 · answer #1 · answered by Lloyd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, 2MB is 4 times larger than 256kb, which means more Cache space (that's a good thing). The higher MHz means the machine processor will run faster, again higher MHz are better.
2006-10-17 13:33:36 · answer #2 · answered by Justin A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
L2 Cache is the memory subsystem that is on the processor die, the actual chip itself. Kind of like internal memory for the processor. In most cases, the more L2 Cache you have, the better for multitasking as with your case.
2006-10-17 13:29:57 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The conversion goes as follows :
1024 Kilobyte (KB) = 1 Megabyte (MB)
so, (256KB + 256KB) ie; 512 KB = 0.5 MB
So now you have to choose between 0.5MB and 2MB.....right ?
It is always better to have more Cache memory !
2006-10-17 13:36:50 · answer #4 · answered by Yahoo Qs-Ans 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just to keep it simple, when it comes to such numbers more = better.
2006-10-17 13:37:15 · answer #5 · answered by cashcobra_99 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋