Re: AMD Athalon 64 X2 6000
- From: "Bigdawg" <hzy1369@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:40:39 -0400
I built a new 775 dual and its faster then my AMD 64 bit but I also used
faster hardware.
1. go over the BIOS settings again and then once more to make sure they
are right
2. check the motherboard drivers. load off the cd or download them form
the Bio stars web site
3. what hard drive is it SATA or ATA. ATA 100 or 133 older hardware will
not necessary be faster on a new board.
"Noozer" <dont.spam@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just built a system around this processor. I am using a BioStar SLI
board, one of their TF series.
I am still running XP Pro, 32bit version.
2 gig ram-
.75 tb hd.
I notice several things:
1-the system takes longer to boot than my old system running a an AMD
Athalon 2GIG.
I find boot time isn't really related so much to CPU speed as it is with
what you have starting up at boot. It's also possible that the BIOS IDE
settings are not what they should be, or the hard drive drivers haven't
been installed in XP.
2-IE 7 now has problems accessing secure web sites, https:// etc.
Sounds like something during the installation went wrong and messed up
some software. If this is a fresh install, I'd format and try again while
paying more attention to what happens after installing each driver and bit
of software.
3-Programs do not run appreciably faster.
How much memory was in the old system? It almost sounds like you didn't
install your chipset drivers, or something similar, so the machine isn't
running at it's full potential.
Dual CPU machines don't run twice as fast as single CPU ones. If you only
run one single processor application on a dual CPU PC, it won't be much
faster than on a single CPU PC running the same clock speed... the only
increase in speed being that Windows itself can use the other processor
for some of it's tasks.
Something that may have happened is that when you installed, you had a
live internet connection running before installing a firewall/virus
scanner. I've seen a Windows PC get hit by Sasser less than 30 seconds
after being connected to the internet.
My only other idea about the lack of performance is what you have running
in the background on your PC.
I have checked the clock speed and each processor is running at 3 GIG.
My questions are:
1-Will Win XP Pro take advantage of the dual core processors?
Yes. XP Home does not support multiple CPUs though.
2-If so, can I customize it?
There is nothing to customize. Windows tries to make the best use of the
CPU's available.
3-Should I manually choose one processor for one application, another
for another etc.
Normally not possible in Windows. Once you start a program you can use the
Task Manager to assign a specific CPU, but Windows won't remember that
setting.
There are programs that will do this... I believe "CPU Control" is one
such utility.
4-Would upgrading to XP Pro 64bit help even though most of my
applications are 32bit?
64bit XP CANNOT use 32bit drivers! Before going to 64bit XP make sure that
you can get 64bit drivers for ALL of your hardware, and any you might buy
in the near future. There are less 64bit XP drivers out there right now
than there are Vista drivers.
5BTW I will not upgrade to Vista.
I'd like to use Vista for a while, but the lack of drivers makes it
impossible. I refuse to toss perfectly functional hardware just to satisfy
my OS. At this point my next upgrade from XP is going to be to OpenSUSE
Linux.
.
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