Improving overall PC performance?

fazerking · Post by **fazerking** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 5:48 am

Just found some information to improve PC performance by tweaking CPU's L2 Cache, but not sure it whether it works

Here :-

〔Regedit〕→〔HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE〕
→〔SYSTEM〕→〔CurrentControlSet〕→〔Control〕→〔SessionManager〕
→〔MemoryManagement〕
and change the value of SecondLevelDataCache same as the value of CPU L2 Cache......

Another question :- should we use the program "Bootvis.exe" for speeding up windows at start-up?

P.S: I'm not quite sure I should post this mail in this forum or not. If I post in the wrong place, please help to remove it to the right place. Thanks!

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:24 am

This tweak is useless unless you have an old Pentium or maybe an old PII, the L2 cache is built into the cpu itself and cannot be altered.

Zincster · Post by **Zincster** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:52 pm

Actually what that tweak does is directly tells windows the size of your l2 cache instead of it autodetecting. So i dont see why you shouldnt set it seeing as how it just saves windows from performing a task.

mnosteele52 · Post by **mnosteele52** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 10:03 pm

Zincster wrote:Actually what that tweak does is directly tells windows the size of your l2 cache instead of it autodetecting. So i dont see why you shouldnt set it seeing as how it just saves windows from performing a task.

No, the amount of memory set by the L2 cache of a cpu is built into the die of the chip (cpu) and set by manufacturer, Windows has NOTHING to do with it.

The tweak is useless.