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  • About Athlon L2 cache....Greebe help :)

    Has anyone out there tried the new L2 cache utility over at http://www.h-oda.com/ ??
    Anyways I currently have an Athlon 500 @ 750 1/3. But I would like to change my cache speed to 2/5.
    My question is...what are all those other L2 cache settings in this utility??

    Greebe maybe you can help me out in explaining what all the settings mean.
    Also there are always 2 settings for each cache speed:
    1- ??? S4
    2- ??? S6
    what is the difference?
    And did they make a mistake in the program because one of the 1/3 settings says 1/3 H6 while all other settings are alway S4 or S6.

    Anyways Greebe help me out guy

    Thx
    Athlon 500MHz @ 750MHz 1/3
    G400 32 meg Dual-Head Vanilla @ 160.2/200.25 (400.5, 2.5/2.0/2.5)

  • #2
    My guess is; for the two different style CPU's out.

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    • #3
      From what i've heard, the S4 and S6 represents the type of cache you have. Use the newest WCPUID utility ver.2.7b <a href=http://www.h-oda.com>www.h-oda.com</a> and it will tell you what type of cache you have.
      ie: mine says "1/2 H6", so I can only use the S6 setting
      hi

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      • #4
        Actually they're address registers. The bottem setting is for the Multiplier, which isn't implemented yet. There are more than simply 2 types out now because of the difference between the different cpu pcb's and L2 chips used.
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        • #5
          Greebe I am currently running an Athlon 500 (650 core) @ 750. I have a slightly better than standard heat sink with lots of thermal paste and a single 2"x2" fan cooling it. My MB is an Asus K7M and I always run with the case open.

          My first question would be...what speed is the cache chips meant to run at?
          Because I want to change the L2 cache divider probably to 1/2. This would mean that the L2 cache would be running at 375. Is that within specs? Because since I don't have a lot of cooling I don't want to get a lot more heat by running the cache too fast.

          So which do you think 1/2 (375) or 2/5 (300) should I run at?

          Thx
          Athlon 500MHz @ 750MHz 1/3
          G400 32 meg Dual-Head Vanilla @ 160.2/200.25 (400.5, 2.5/2.0/2.5)

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          • #6
            ahhh crap...
            I just noticed that you have to manually set the L2 cache speed everytime you reboot.

            is there a way to get this thing to be permanent? if not, I hope they find a way to make it permanent in the next version.
            Athlon 500MHz @ 750MHz 1/3
            G400 32 meg Dual-Head Vanilla @ 160.2/200.25 (400.5, 2.5/2.0/2.5)

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            • #7
              The only way to make that permanent is hardware alteration. Too bad you didn't get your CPU from Greebe, because he does that. (That's where I got mine
              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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              • #8
                Hi there guys!

                Yes, I think H-Oda did a great achievement with this program. The man must be a genius or something like that.

                Zenfe: At the present time you have to set the cache speed every time you reboot. In the utility read.me H-Oda states that the next realease will include some kind of a device driver to be load at DOS/windows startup. Oh, and "lots" of thermal paste isnĀ“t always a good thing.

                Greebe: Honestly, what do you think about changing the cpu multiplier with software? (my 500 is giving me itches each time I boot it at the default speed )

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                • #9
                  when I said "lots" of thermal paste I just meant that I put more than what was there to begin with. I mean the stock cpu w/heatsink has like 2 little dabs of thermal paste.

                  Anyways i tested some settings and found that setting the L2 cache to 1/2 on my Athlon 500@750 is unstable. I got crashes while running 3DMark 2000 and once it even rebooted But 2/5 is running nice and smooth. I soldered the L2 cache to 1/3 when I first overclocked the cpu and now I wish I had put it to 2/5. Oh well things happen.

                  Ya greebe what are your thoughts on a soft L2 cache??
                  Athlon 500MHz @ 750MHz 1/3
                  G400 32 meg Dual-Head Vanilla @ 160.2/200.25 (400.5, 2.5/2.0/2.5)

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