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L2 Cache Memory
Name: looi76 Date: June 3, 2008 at 06:44:22 Pacific OS: Windows Vista Home Premie CPU/Ram: 3GB DDR2 Product: HP Pavilion DV28600ee
Comment:
My processor is Intel Core 2 Due T9300 2.5Ghz. Each core has L2 Cache Memory of 6MB. Does this mean that the total L2 Cache Memory is 12MB? I have took a screen shot. Thank in advance..... http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/...
"Does this mean that the total L2 Cache Memory is 12MB?"
No, you don't combine them, just like you don't combine the CPU core speeds. You don't have a 5.0GHz CPU, you have two cores running at 2.5GHz & each core has 6MB L2 cache.
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Response Number 2
Name: jackbomb Date: June 3, 2008 at 23:30:58 Pacific
Reply:
Your processor has a shared L2 cache. There is only one L2 cache of 6MB, but each core has access to it.
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