So recently I've been tweaking my computer's registry for its Memory Management. I know its a bad thing to do to edit your registry without knowing what it may cause to your system but i've only touched a specific registry value which is the SecondLevelDataCache
in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
I've "accidentally" set its value to 512 Hexadecimal(1298 decimal) instead of 512 Decimal. My CPU's L2 Cache can only do 2x256 KB(Intel I3 2nd Gen 2330M).
So far I've seen faster responses from the system when I set it on 512 Hexa.
Not only that, I've also tried playing games and running applications and also observed better performance from them overall.
And now my question is, what might be a problem later on for this setting if I left it on? What might it cause to my hardware/OS if it were to be left like that that?