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Fake Cache RAM on sale in Britain
- Personal Computer World (March 96)

"Motherboards fake cache RAM are on sale in Britain, a Personal Computer World investigation has revealed." "Stories about fakes have been circulating for months and examples have been found on the continent; but these were the first we had seen in Britain. People who buy motherboards to upgrade or build a PC will not necessarily spot fake cache because the machine will function, although relatively slowly. Cache holds data ready for the processor to avoid delays in delivery from slow RAM. It uses Static RAM chips which do not need a refresh strobe like ordinary memory and are faster." "The main processor has internal cache, so the S-RAM chips are called secondary or Level 2 cache. The simplest strategy for using it is to write data to the cache and RAM at the same time.... A quick test is to compare speeds with the cache enabled and disabled. You can disable the cache via the CMOS Setup."

Clive Akass, Personal Computer World, March 1996 (Summary)