Hi all

Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day and discovered something
which I thought others might want to know about ( just in case ).

A lot of people these days are running processors with a fast L2 cache,
normally 512kb - Northwood or Bartons for example. Did you kow that if you
are running XP you will only be using 256Kb of this at the most as XP is
only configured to utilise that amount. If you are running a 512Kb L2 Cache
or higher you need to register it manually.

You can do this by going to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryMan
agement and find the DWORD entry : SecondLevelDataCache. When entering
values here, be sure to use the correct numeric system. 256Kb should be
entered as 100 in hexadecimal, 512Kb is 200 and 1024Kb is 400

Hope this is of use to some of you guys and gals

Peace

Daniel

Interesting! Here is a web page on that setting:

http://theeldergeek.com/level_2_cache_settings.htm

@drian.

"Daniel Yates" shared:
>
> Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day
> and discovered something which I thought others
> might want to know about ( just in case ).


What's the magazine that carries this interesting
stuff?


*TimDaniels*

"Daniel Yates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi all
>
> Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day and discovered something
> which I thought others might want to know about ( just in case ).
>
> A lot of people these days are running processors with a fast L2 cache,
> normally 512kb - Northwood or Bartons for example. Did you kow that if you
> are running XP you will only be using 256Kb of this at the most as XP is
> only configured to utilise that amount. If you are running a 512Kb L2
Cache
> or higher you need to register it manually.
>
> You can do this by going to
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryMan
> agement and find the DWORD entry : SecondLevelDataCache. When entering
> values here, be sure to use the correct numeric system. 256Kb should be
> entered as 100 in hexadecimal, 512Kb is 200 and 1024Kb is 400
>
> Hope this is of use to some of you guys and gals
>
> Peace
>
> Daniel
>
Thanks for that

SteveH

It;s in the Uk and called PCGaming Hardware World. It is a relativly new mag
( only 5 issues out so far ) but this is the best hardware mag I have ever
seen. basically it may as well be called homebuilders and overclockers
monthly 'cause that is what it is

To quote it's front cover " Extreme Hardware! : The only mag dedicated to
games hardware and extreme CPU, 3DCard & motherboard tuning!"

.. very good mag, worth getting.

Daniel


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> "Daniel Yates" shared:
> >
> > Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day
> > and discovered something which I thought others
> > might want to know about ( just in case ).
>
>
> What's the magazine that carries this interesting
> stuff?
>
>
> *TimDaniels*

"Daniel Yates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>It;s in the Uk and called PCGaming Hardware World. It is a relativly new mag
>( only 5 issues out so far ) but this is the best hardware mag I have ever
>seen. basically it may as well be called homebuilders and overclockers
>monthly 'cause that is what it is
>
>To quote it's front cover " Extreme Hardware! : The only mag dedicated to
>games hardware and extreme CPU, 3DCard & motherboard tuning!"
>
>. very good mag, worth getting.
>
>Daniel
>

Do you have an url for them?



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Excellent tip. If I read the article correctly, this is probably set
incorrectly in every machine where the CPU was upgraded after XP was
installed (such as mine).
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"Daniel Yates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:Zee8b.480$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
>
> Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day and discovered something
> which I thought others might want to know about ( just in case ).
>
> A lot of people these days are running processors with a fast L2 cache,
> normally 512kb - Northwood or Bartons for example. Did you kow that if you
> are running XP you will only be using 256Kb of this at the most as XP is
> only configured to utilise that amount. If you are running a 512Kb L2
Cache
> or higher you need to register it manually.
>
> You can do this by going to
>
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryMan
> agement and find the DWORD entry : SecondLevelDataCache. When entering
> values here, be sure to use the correct numeric system. 256Kb should be
> entered as 100 in hexadecimal, 512Kb is 200 and 1024Kb is 400
>
> Hope this is of use to some of you guys and gals
>
> Peace
>
> Daniel
>
>

Great find! Thanks for the heads up. All my Barton boxes are running
Win98SE but I'm glad to know about that anyway.
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> Thanks for that
>
> SteveH
>
Same here.
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They havent got a website yet. Not sure if they have one in the pipeline or
not. I know they are a sub mag of PC Gaming World who i know have a web
site but not sure of the URL - a google search should pop something up.

Daniel
"Olav" <olavatwintechdotno> wrote in message news:3f61c8c9$1_1@127.0.0.1...
> "Daniel Yates" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >It;s in the Uk and called PCGaming Hardware World. It is a relativly new
mag
> >( only 5 issues out so far ) but this is the best hardware mag I have
ever
> >seen. basically it may as well be called homebuilders and overclockers
> >monthly 'cause that is what it is
> >
> >To quote it's front cover " Extreme Hardware! : The only mag dedicated to
> >games hardware and extreme CPU, 3DCard & motherboard tuning!"
> >
> >. very good mag, worth getting.
> >
> >Daniel
> >
>
> Do you have an url for them?
>
>
>
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