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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (285239)	4/23/2006 9:08:41 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 1573221

Large caches do wonders. Only on selected benchmarks. It's just as easy for the competition to toss in a large cache too, but of course it makes a little better performance for Intel because it keeps them away from the memory controller. The biggest problem that Intel has with it's design is that the parallel transfer to the memory controller takes up a lot of pins that it could use for power and ground. There is only so much real-estate in the chip socket for all those pins and it's a shame to waste them going out of the chip only to go back in again. TP