Great post from another NG

This was posted on alt.comp.pc-homebuilt-

 > Hi all
 >
 > Bought my fave hardware magazine the other day and discovered something
 > which I thought others might want to know about ( just in case ).
 >
 > A lot of people these days are running processors with a fast L2 cache,
 > normally 512kb - Northwood or Bartons for example. Did you kow that if you
 > are running XP you will only be using 256Kb of this at the most as XP is
 > only configured to utilise that amount. If you are running a 512Kb L2
Cache
 > or higher you need to register it manually.
 >
 > You can do this by going to
 >
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SessionManager\MemoryMan
 > agement and find the DWORD entry : SecondLevelDataCache. When entering
 > values here, be sure to use the correct numeric system. 256Kb should be
 > entered as 100 in hexadecimal, 512Kb is 200 and 1024Kb is 400
 >
 > Hope this is of use to some of you guys and gals
 >
 > Peace
 >
 > Daniel
 >

Here's a source for more
info-http://theeldergeek.com/level_2_cache_settings.htm


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