Marcin541 Posted February 25, 2006 CID Share Posted February 25, 2006 What is L1 cache, can a pc run without it, and can you enable/disable it willingly? What about L2 cache? My older pc seems broken, and the windows 95 diagnostic thing is telling me L1 cache is disabled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted February 25, 2006 CID Share Posted February 25, 2006 Marcin541 : Simply this is your Level 1 processor cache L1 L2 is the level 2 processor cache . If both are settable this is done in your computers BIOS outside of your Windows OS. On mine when L1 is enabled L2 is enabled at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cak46 Posted February 25, 2006 CID Share Posted February 25, 2006 L1 cache is the primary cache memory built into your cpu chip. Webopedia defines L2 as this: L2 cache Short for Level 2 cache, cache memory that is external to the microprocessor. In general, L2 cache memory, also called the secondary cache, resides on a separate chip from the microprocessor chip. Although, more and more microprocessors are including L2 caches into their architectures. http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/L/L2_cache.html Cholla's got it right........ enable or disable L1 in BIOS (if it's available as an option for your older machine). Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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