All CeleronA processors have 128 KB of on-die L2 Cache

 

Okay so i have a CeleronA with 128 KB of on-die L2 Cache.
So what is the celeron without an L2 cache called and what is the difference between them?( apart from the L2)

 

Originally posted by sonicfoot
Okay so i have a CeleronA with 128 KB of on-die L2 Cache.
So what is the celeron without an L2 cache called and what is the difference between them?( apart from the L2)

They're called Celeron. If I'm not mistaken, all Celerons with more than 300MHz have L2 cache.

 

is there something wrong w/ your cpu

BTW does anyone of you tried to disable the L2 cache of a Pentium 2..... i tried it and it become celeron
the bios report it as celery

 

no, there isn't anything wrong with my cpu, its just that some programs that i have recognise my cpu as a pentium 3.
then i downloaded and tried out 3dmark 2001 yesterday and it reported my cpu having an L2 cache!

 

Originally posted by sonicfoot
no, there isn't anything wrong with my cpu, its just that some programs that i have recognise my cpu as a pentium 3.
then i downloaded and tried out 3dmark 2001 yesterday and it reported my cpu having an L2 cache!

Your Celeron is based on the P3 Coppermine core w/ SSE so some programs might recognize it as P3

Originally posted by FireGL
BTW does anyone of you tried to disable the L2 cache of a Pentium 2..... i tried it and it become celeron
the bios report it as celery

Hmm, maybe if the CPU has less than 512 KB of cache it will report it as a Celeron. The only real difference between P2 and Celeron is the FSB (which can be overclocked) and the size of the L2 cache.

 

your celeron (if its 533 MHz or faster) is just a castrated Pentium 3 less cache (128k as opposed to 256k) fewer pipelines (2 as opposed to 4) and slower Front Side Bus (66Mhz/100Mhz from 133Mhz)

 

Originally posted by liquid
fewer pipelines (2 as opposed to 4)

Umm, no.

You're probably confused by the fact that the way in which Intel disable half the cache, also strips the chip from having a 4 way set associative cache to a 2 way one.

 

hey....could someone tell me how to find out the L2 cache value??

 

use wcpuid.. http://www.h-oda.com/

 

can anyone tell me what cache actually does?

 

Cache Memory

 

these might help clear things up http://www.southernutah.com/exec/index/CIN/2465/