Recent content by ZachC

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    Only half of the cpu's L2 cache detected?

    Oh no not Windows 10. I have installed it 4 times on my main PC, that crap crashes two to three times a day (windows 7 rarely crashed on same setup)! Anyways, CPU-Z reports the L2 cache as 6144x2, but it would be nice to see if it is actually using it rather than just reading the info from the...
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    Only half of the cpu's L2 cache detected?

    I recently was given an Acer Aspire m3900. Performance was awful So I popped in a Xeon E5450 (12mb of cache). During post the bios said that it only detected 6144 kb. Why is the bios not detecting the full 12mb of cache? specs: Xeon e5450 GTX 1050 ti 250 gb ssd G45T/G43T-am3 v1.1 motherboard...
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    CPU clock running at a much slower clock speed

    I recently built a gaming PC, and after OC my processor to 4.5 GHz. I checked CPU-Z and MSI Command Center and they both said my core clock speed is 2 GHz. I tried playing Dayz, Tomb raider, and even minecraft and the games run close to the unplayable state (20 FPS) on low settings. While...