Tip on improve your Dual-Core XP performance (1 Viewer)

[geov]

Hi All

I don't think this has been posted before, but I found a patch for XP that improved my 3DMark06 performance score. Have a look at this link...I promise you that it gave me a performance improvement of 35%.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60416

Great for those of you that need XP to use that Dual-Core processor that you paid so much for properly.

Cheers
GeoV

 

[Game_dude]

Oh yea this is always the first thing I do when I install XP on My pc's some people don't know about it so it should post useful

 

[cheetah05]

Should you still do this on a fresh install of XP or only one where you have updated the CPU and havent reinstalled windows.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

cheetah05

If you have a amd dual core processor would recommend the optimizer anyway,

Found here http://www.amd.com/gb-uk/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_13118,00.html

Do not know about the intel fix, but maybe someone can add their comment.

These patches only apply to XP and not Vista.

 

[cheetah05]

Well I have an AMD Opteron 165 (Dual-Core).

I have downloaded and installed it. Anything else I should do?

Anything I should notice? Or is it completely silent?

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

You will not notice a great difference until you run video processing (example) with another cpu consuming item at the same time.

Then the benefits for Dualcore will show up.

 

[cheetah05]

Ah great, I do alot of video encoding/decoding....I will notice a difference there?

Because I use AutoGK to encode things into XVID....will it be quicker doing things like that?

I only ask because when it is running and I open taskmanager it already has both cores full used?

Thanks for the info by the way