Optimizing processor?. Hey I just bought a new processor, amd athlon 64x2 5600 3.ghz. I was wondering if there was any thing I could do to tweak it for gaming? I run vista 32bit, 4g ram, 8600gts vid card. Hey I just bought a new processor, amd athlon 64x2 5600...

differences even on the same processor. It's simple, Intel makes very good compilers for their processors, where as AMD does not seem to shine in this area. If AMD would put some more resources into making compilers that optimize for their processors, it's...

Intel's not as dumb as I first thought.... Initially I was thinking, "Man, that's stupid of Intel to make a processor that performs well on Internet apps but pretty bad on standard Workstation apps!" , in reference to the P4. However, at that time I was only...

out of the box that way, but that doesn't mean AMD is going past the line by offering thier own optimized software. AMD really needs to work with the software developers and have them write programs optimized for their processors. But since that hasn't happened,...

optimized for their processors. Tomshardware is *not* responsible for doing this. They merely gather what software people use more often (supposedly) and show the results. It's not the review sites job to do optimizations. If you think the Athlon should...

processor! for software, it had no difference and ran all the 8086 software as easily. it was designed to be used in older 8 bit systems that used 8085 but still be a 16 bit processor. the difference in 8086 and 8088 was that the 8086 had a 16 bit data...

is optimised for a certain processor, means the programmers took measures to utilise the processors capabilities to the max, in order to make it run faster on that type of proc. To you, Eden, a program that is optimised for a processor means that it obtains...

have brought up are quite valid. As you have found out, EViews is not optimized for P4. In addition P4 is the CPU that needed the optimization to obtain the most benefit from it. You see the result when codes are not optimized for this processor. Now what...

upon and maintained for years to come. Do you realize how much cheaper an Itanium is compared to all the other 64-bit processors on the market? You can easily purchase more of them to improve performance and still pay less than you would for a different processor....