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eddy@innotts.co.uk (Eddy Hood) wrote:

>I am thinking about buying a new motherboard and CPU, and in adverts for
>them I have seen things such as W/B Cache, and 256k Cache.. I think I
>understand W/B to mean Write Back Cache. What is one of these? Is it better
>to have a Write Back Cache than a 256k Cache or it is best to have both?
>Would a motherboard with just a Write Back Cache be alright?
>I hope someone can help me out here !
>Thanks alot,

>Eddy.

I'm no expert, but the L1 cache on the CPU itself can either be
write-back or write- through...write-back is generally quicker...the
256K cache is the L2 SRAM cache on the motherboard...it's definitely
worth getting...from what I've read 256K is sufficient, although 512K
will give you a marginal pick-up in performance...if your're getting a
Pentium try to get the pipeline burst L2 cache -- it's worth the
money...anyway, lurk on this newsgroup and you'll pick up on the
technical details on the variants of cache!