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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (57198)5/4/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Respond to of 1572963
 
Cringe - Re: "Wouldn't a 550MHz Xeon w/2MB L2 cache be faster than a 600MHz Xeon w/256KB L2 cache in some applications(/servers)?"

Yes - the "550MHz Xeon w/2MB L2 cache" could be faster in server type applications where the larger caches reduce congestion on the main memory bus.

Paul