Last week I got some more RAM for my machine, a 256Mb PC133. To go along with the 128Mb I all ready had. Manly because it was so cheap but also with an eye on XP when it arives.

My system would appear sluggish, bench marks are almost unchanged (slight inprovement) but in real world usage it would appear to have degraded the performance.

I have a Soltek P54U5 MoBo VIA MVP3 Soket 7 with a K6-2 500MHz CPU. the board has a 512Kb Cache.
386Mb of Memory running at 100MHz
O/S Win ME
also running "Memory interleaver for VIA chip sets" a small util that enables interleaving. (this program work well on my machine giving a smal but notisable speed improvment)

Is it posible that the lack of second level cache is afecting performance? (The cache can't address that much memory.)

Also I have arriving soon a new K6-2+ CPU. Because the chip has 2nd level cache on board the MoBo's cache becomes 3rd level, will this make any improvments to the memory problems? if that is what it is...

(sorry for the spelling)