Patch for amd X2 owners?...

**kolokythaki** · October 24th, 2006, 03:39 PM

I ve heard that theres a patch from MS, for all amd X2 users, which should install it in order to fix some bugs...
Is this true? Where is that patch?

**Crastabule** · October 24th, 2006, 04:18 PM

Hi Kolokythaki,

Go here and download and install those utilities and drivers that you need. I saw three that would likely benefit you.

AMD drivers page

I didn't see any patches for x2 that Microsoft had released themselves.

Take care of you!
-Crasty

**kolokythaki** · October 24th, 2006, 05:43 PM

Well, from this site I downloaded the

- AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
- AMD Dual-Core Optimizer

and I also have the win updates August &
September...

Am I ok?

**Ferrit** · October 24th, 2006, 08:29 PM

I'll byte are you?

**kolokythaki** · October 25th, 2006, 09:29 PM

What??

Have u download that patch?

**kolokythaki** · October 26th, 2006, 09:42 AM

So...no amd X2 user here??

**Ferrit** · October 26th, 2006, 09:45 AM

Yes i have downloaded that patch and installed it
And yes I am an X2 user and have been for 6 months
AMD AM2 X2 4600

**Crastabule** · October 26th, 2006, 10:43 AM

Let me take this opportunity to state that I believe Ferrit has the best avatar in the history of mustelid avatars.

**Loopy** · October 28th, 2006, 01:00 PM

Originally Posted by Crastabule

Let me take this opportunity to state that I believe Ferrit has the best avatar in the history of mustelid avatars.

I agree he does have a cool avatar.

BTW: I don't understand the whole dual core thing? if I run two applications at once will one core handle one app?

**Ferrit** · October 28th, 2006, 06:17 PM

At this point in time are able to set the affinity to a particular app in the task manager. It has limitations such as that affinity does't stay after a reboot.
I would hope sometime soon some clever fellow would write a nice lil gui interface for some of the command line affinity programs out there such as RunFirst or somesuch.
That would make it easy to designate certain apps to certain cores.
So for example run all the mundane protection stuff AV,Spyware,email,etc on 1 core fulltime and that allows the second core to do the major stuff such as video or audio work. Then you wouldn't get a burp in video encodeing like you can get if say your AV kicks in while your encoding.

**Loopy** · October 29th, 2006, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by Ferrit

At this point in time are able to set the affinity to a particular app in the task manager. It has limitations such as that affinity does't stay after a reboot.
I would hope sometime soon some clever fellow would write a nice lil gui interface for some of the command line affinity programs out there such as RunFirst or somesuch.
That would make it easy to designate certain apps to certain cores.
So for example run all the mundane protection stuff AV,Spyware,email,etc on 1 core fulltime and that allows the second core to do the major stuff such as video or audio work. Then you wouldn't get a burp in video encodeing like you can get if say your AV kicks in while your encoding.

Would a dual core processor work in Windows XP home? or Pro only?

**Ferrit** · October 30th, 2006, 09:19 AM

http://www.kid-computers.com/press/xpvspro.shtml

**Loopy** · October 31st, 2006, 12:55 AM

I read what you posted Ferrit, and then I found this link to more info on dual cores in WinXP home

Now I'm somewhat confused?

**kolokythaki** · November 12th, 2006, 05:25 AM

Well, I think there's a major proplem with the cool & quiet (also conflicts with sound card-audigy 2 ZS-and my 4X512 ram) so I disabled it.
Because control panel--> system says that I have 990MHz or 1,78G instead of 2.2G !
But cool & quiet is a very important function and I need it. Can I avoid disable it?

Ferrit, do u use properly cool & quiet?