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I remember Doom pushing a much higher frame rate than that with those specs. The real issue was that you needed L2 cache!
by sneakernets 7y ago
I remember Doom pushing a much higher frame rate than that with those specs. The real issue was that you needed L2 cache!
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- Narishma 7y agoI don't think 386 CPUs had any cache.
- detaro 7y agoThe CPUs didn't (except for some later variants), but mainboards could add it. Or was that only with the 486?
- saltcured 7y agoIf I remember correctly, there were even some 286 motherboards with SRAM cache onboard, as well as on 386 boards. That would be L1 cache on those. For a 486 board, this would be L2 cache since the CPU has its own internal L1. These SRAM chips were dual-inline pin packages (DIP), i.e. those black rectangular chips with fat pins down both long edges. Sometimes these were in friction-fit sockets and sometimes soldered down. On the 286, I think the DRAM was also socketed DIP.