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buzz_X   05-10-2007 at 06:17:21 AM

Hi All,

I installed an Athlon 64 x2 4200 with 2 Gigs of Patriot ram. I used the AMD processor drivers and also the dual core optimizer, plus I did the thing with the boot.ini file...however, my rig took very long to unzip an archive with WinZIP 8.0 ....I mean, even longer than my old Athlon XP Mobile at 2500 Mhz....how is that possible?

If anybody has som,e experience with this problem, I would appreciate youir input and thanks!

bx

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1Tanker   05-10-2007 at 06:50:34 AM
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Hi All,

I installed an Athlon 64 x2 4200 with 2 Gigs of Patriot ram. I used the AMD processor drivers and also the dual core optimizer, plus I did the thing with the boot.ini file...however, my rig took very long to unzip an archive with WinZIP 8.0 ....I mean, even longer than my old Athlon XP Mobile at 2500 Mhz....how is that possible?

If anybody has som,e experience with this problem, I would appreciate youir input and thanks!

bx

Could you post your full system specs, please? Memory speed/timings also.

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m25   05-10-2007 at 03:32:39 PM
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Is everything else installed; motherboard, video card etc?! How's your HDD?! What frequency is your X2 4200+ running at' you might have locked it @ 1000MHz.

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buzz_X   05-10-2007 at 06:10:56 PM
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Hi All,

The processor is running at 2.21 Ghz and these are the rest of the components:
Processor: Athlon 64 x2 4200
Motherboard: ECS Nforce4M-A (v 3.0)
HDD: Western Digital UATA 100 7200 rpm
memory: @ Gb (1 Gb x 2) Patriot DDR2 800 (5 5 5 15)
video card: SA3 Virge (PCI)
Sound: Realtek AC97 (integrated)

As I said before, loaded the latest AMD dual cpu drivers (v 1.3.2.0 from the AMD website)

I also installed the AMD dual processor optimizer software and the Windows XP Hotfix Patch: KB896256

I also created these registry settings:
=============================================
The registry location: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager should have a key named Throttle there, if not make it by right clicking, point at New > Key... name it Throttle.

3) (Still in registry) Inside Throttle key: should be a DWORD called PerfEnablePackageIdle with the value of 1. If not there, right click, point to New > DWORD... name it PerfEnablePackageIdle.
*** Note: You should type 1 in the Value data box to enable the performance state policy behavior (increases performance)
==============================================

The computer shows up as an ACPI Multiprocessor in device manager.

Here is my boot.ini file showing the info for it to run the dual processor optimizer utility:
==============================================
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn /usepmtimer
==============================================

As you can see, I've checked all pertinent settings and installed most all necessary drivers/software...that's why I'm here, I can't figure out what's the problem?

Thanks again!

bx

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1Tanker   05-10-2007 at 06:24:05 PM
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Quote :

Hi All,

I installed an Athlon 64 x2 4200 with 2 Gigs of Patriot ram. I used the AMD processor drivers and also the dual core optimizer, plus I did the thing with the boot.ini file...however, my rig took very long to unzip an archive with WinZIP 8.0 ....I mean, even longer than my old Athlon XP Mobile at 2500 Mhz....how is that possible?

If anybody has som,e experience with this problem, I would appreciate youir input and thanks!

bx

Did you do a format/reinstall when you switched? If so, i wonder if your HDD is set back to PIO mode. Might be worth checking that it's using DMA. Sometimes it will switch back to PIO when reinstalling, making any changes. GL :)

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buzz_X   05-11-2007 at 04:44:26 AM
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No,

I don't think it's the hard drive on PIO (been checked already) or the OS, I installed a fresh copy of Win XP.

However, I do think the app I was using (Win Zip) isn't multi-threaded and that's what did it.

bx

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nvalhalla   05-11-2007 at 05:48:25 AM
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No,

I don't think it's the hard drive on PIO (been checked already) or the OS, I installed a fresh copy of Win XP.

However, I do think the app I was using (Win Zip) isn't multi-threaded and that's what did it.

bx



Still, you should be running faster with a single core on the X2 than with the XP2500. Run a SiSoft Sandra CPU test and see if it compares to the reference results for your processor. If something is really wrong it should show up there as well as winzip. Might I also recommend Winrar...

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