Re: SX cache

[Bill Broadley <bill math ucdavis edu>]

On Tue, Aug 31, 1999 at 11:53:09AM +0000, Shane Steven Sturrock wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any way to increase the cache on a
> 533SX above 1MB.  We originally paid for an LX but the company
> sent us the SX and promptly folded so there is little we can do
> about getting what we wanted.  We have since bought an LX from
> another company and that is proving to be 30% faster than the SX
> as expected.  Is there any physical reason why the PC164SX only
> has 1MB cache and if it had 2MB would it perform in a similar
> manner to our LX?
> 
> As for the LX, wow!  Same video, UW-SCSI etc as the SX, but wow!
> It is so much more snappy.  I wish I had one at home......
> 

The SX has a 16k/16k L1 cache, and no onboard L2.  The LX has 96k
of L2 cache running at full cpu speed.  So while a larger cache
might help a bit, it's still not going to be as fast as the Lx.

Which company went out of business?

> Shane
> 
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