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FDTzeng   04-26-2003 at 05:46:46 AM

Ok for Windows updat one of the updates it offers under the driver section is: Microsoft Processor Driver Version 5.1.2600.1152.

What the hell is this? Is this necessary? It says supported hardware is te "K7 Processor." Ive been running the system fine without it. They say if it aint broken dont fix it....

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Twitch   04-26-2003 at 05:52:26 AM
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Windows XP has certain parameters that can be adjusted to optimize for Athlon XP.



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eden   04-26-2003 at 04:48:44 PM
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Which we all know = BS!

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LumberJack   04-26-2003 at 05:11:23 PM
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Agreed...



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juin   04-26-2003 at 05:30:15 PM
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maybe not who know

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FDTzeng   04-27-2003 at 12:53:43 AM
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Um so has anyone used it? Does it make any diff? Faster? Cooler temps? Anything?

Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.2GHz, A7N8X, Kingston HyperX PC3000 512MB @177MHz, Radeon 9700Pro, SB Live 5.1

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JimStapleton   04-27-2003 at 02:08:58 PM
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seems to run faster with me.

Athlon XP 1600+, MSI K7T PRO2 RU (POS), 2x256 MB CRUCIAL PC2100 CL2.5 memory, Asus V6800 DDR Delux (GF 256) video card, 6.4GB+27GB WD HD, 40GB IBM HD (all 7200RPM). My computer is an acronym

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FDTzeng   04-28-2003 at 01:41:12 AM
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Have you run any benchmarks? Any hard numbers from anyone out there?

Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.2GHz, A7N8X, Kingston HyperX PC3000 512MB @177MHz, Radeon 9700Pro, SB Live 5.1

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Teq   04-28-2003 at 05:56:11 AM
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Here's a few examples...

If you look in the registry at

<font color=green>hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\memory management</font color=green>

You will find a setting for "SecondLevelDataCache" that can be tweaked to get the most performance from AMDS with larger on-die caches.

You can also add the dword value "LargePageMinimum" == FFFFFFFF which will help AMDS arbitrate video memory more reliably.

at
<font color=green>hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\Priority Control</font color=green>

You can adjust the "Priority Separation" to 1 which makes multi-tasking much more efficient with AMD.

at
<font color=green>hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\control\session manager\</font color=green>

You can set "Enable MCA" to 0 and "Enable MCE" to 0 which gives a bit of a boost with AMDS.

You can also set "Processor Control" to 2 to minimize timing errors.



So.. Yes there are AMD specific optomizations you can do to XP and 2k.


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Willamette_sucks   04-28-2003 at 06:01:29 AM
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does the AMD driver do these things automatically?
or do i have to edit the registry manually to enable/disable those things?

Long live ATI.

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Twitch   04-28-2003 at 06:04:16 AM
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Well, I'm not Teq, and I can't speak for the new drivers, but I know certain programs like TweakXP will make some of the registry changes automatically, you just have to click a checkbox...

<A HREF="http://www.tweakxp.com/" target="_new">TweakXP</A>


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Teq   04-28-2003 at 06:22:56 AM
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Some of both. The driver adds better timings for the faster XP Cpus introduced since WinXP came out and it tweaks a few registry settings as well.

You should at least check the ones I listed.


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FDTzeng   04-28-2003 at 07:48:41 PM
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Very interesting ... maybe Ill try this and post some numbers...

Athlon XP 2500+ @ 2.2GHz, A7N8X, Kingston HyperX PC3000 512MB @177MHz, Radeon 9700Pro, SB Live 5.1

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