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Article #559Re: Is there a program that will disable L2 cache in Pentium MMX's?
From: Ga'ash Soffer
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 00:00
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what game are you playing? qbasic nibbles? :) Midgard wrote: > > I need a program that will temporarily disable the L2 cache in a > Pentium 166MMX. I know you can do it from BIOS, but it's a pain to > have to enter set-up every time I want to do this so I was wondering > if there is a DOS-based utility (or Windows 95) that will perform this > function? I basically want to use it as a CPU speed reducer to run > older DOS applications & games. I also know about Mo'Slo, however I > need the smoother performance that L2 cache disabling provides. Can > someone please steer me in the right direction? Thanks. > > Best, > Midgard > > remove -nospam- to reply by email -- Rage's Hardware http://www.computerheaven.net/rageshardware/ Hardware reviews, previews, and news full i740 review, AX6LC, 3D accelerator benchmarks and image quality comparision and more...
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,7e0624aa1e245c92 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,7e0624aa1e245c92 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 10c1e0,7e0624aa1e245c92 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c1e0,public X-Google-Thread: 1042ea,7e0624aa1e245c92 X-Google-Attributes: gid1042ea,public From: Ga'ash Soffer <ragemage@home.com> Subject: Re: Is there a program that will disable L2 cache in Pentium MMX's? Date: 1998/04/06 Message-ID: <3529C3C7.CA8A869D@home.com> X-Deja-AN: 341568758 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6gb71q$bb5@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: @Home Network Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,demon.tech.pc,intel.microprocessors.pentium,intel.motherboards.pentium