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    L2 cache on an s96j

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by who8mahrice, Sep 2, 2006.

  1. who8mahrice

    who8mahrice Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm thinking about gettin the 2.0ghz Merom which includes 4MB of L2 cache rather than 2MB. How much of a performance gain would that translate into on the s96j? Or it is not worth the extra wait? (I'd be going several weeks into college without a laptop).
     
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  2. usapatriot

    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    About 10-20% depending on what your gonna do the most with your laptop.

    More CPU Cache does tend to help overall though.

    :)

    If your gonna do email, internet, word, pics, and most games, it wont make a difference, but if you wanna future proof it some, and are planning on doing video, or video encoding, then it would be a good idea.
     
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  3. Chris27

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    well with conroe going from 2mb to 4mb gives about a 10% performance increase, depending what you are doing.
     
    Chris27, Sep 2, 2006
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