Calvin The newer G3 chips have incorporated the L2 cache on to the chip itself - so it runs at the same clock speed as the chip. The older L2 cache was external to the chip and usually (on the lower end machines) only ran at half the clock speed. So, reportedly, the new G3s with 256k on-chip L2 cache are faster (at the same clock rate) than the older G3s with 512k external L2 cache.
Cheers Greg on 27/9/01 1:01 PM, Calvin Conkey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am looking into getting one of the new iMacs. I am trying to get > the best value for money and am looking at the iMac 600mhz with CDRW. > I was wondering why it only has 256k L2 cache? This seems too small > for this kind of machine! Wouldn't this cause a "bottle-neck" in > terms of the speed of the computer? I noticed that the 500mhz > version has a 512k L2 cache, why is it higher than the 600mhz model? > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Cal > > Got a Question? Try searching the WAMUG list archives first at > <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wamug/messages/> > > To unsubscribe from the WAMUG e-mail list, send e-mail from this account to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
