Upgrading procesor

[PP Mguire]

I only said what I said because I wanted to use the cache pun.

 

[Yami]

I only said what I said because I wanted to use the cache pun.

Ah, I missed it first time round. Hehe

 

[Vinny Vite Vichy]

Cache is very small amounts of memory on the CPU itself that is extremely fast compared to that of system RAM. The system "caches" small bits of data that it is currently using there. Cache doesn't really mean much in gaming when comparing it to the importance of single threaded performance or a GPU.

Explained perfectly thank you.

In computing, you have a hierarchy of storage, ordered in terms of capacity, latency, and cost. A cache is a is a component used for storage that is faster than forms of storage above it; the example PP gave is CPU cache compared to RAM. The tradeoff for increased speed is that the cache will have a much smaller capacity, and increase in cost.

RAM comes in multi-gigabyte capacities, takes between 10 and 100 nanoseconds to read or write to, and costs about $0.03 per megabyte.
CPU cache is usually less than 10 megabytes in a normal desktop CPU, takes less than 10 nanoseconds to read or write to, and costs in the range of a dollar per megabyte.



Here's a good diagram this illustrates the point:

And you added the bit more I needed to know, and some stuff to research to learn more. Thank you

 

[acerinpa]

I just learned something as well.