Allright, fine, 192KB of effective on-chip L2 cache RAM, as the L1 and L2 effectively, since they're both on the chip, and therefore access speed is the same internally, are the same. The K6-III+(450MHz), if you can still find one, has 256 KB of L2 cache, + 64 KB L1, totalling 312 KB of on-chip cache, which is what I replaced my 380MHz K6-2 with. It effectively halved the loadup speed of Photoshop 6.0, and the bootup time for Win2000 was considerably shortened as well. The number of dropped frames on the DVD player was cut almost to zero, especially after I maxed out the RAM at 192MB. Compaq should be shot for deliberately obsoleting the thing by limiting the BIOS to 128MB memory sticks (256MB sticks are unrecognized).
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