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Anonymous at 09:00am 01/9/2006
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I have the AMD 3800x2 and love it. I am trying to find information
on how to configure my PC for best Game performance. What services
do I need to have running to play games on line and is there any
tweaks that I can do to get the best over all preformance out of my
HP pc.
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Anonymous at 12:38pm 11/1/2005
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you can already do this... just set the cpu affinity. In windows xp
you can tell each process which cores it may use. My only bugbear is
that you have to set it each time, it does not save :-(
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Anonymous at 04:01am 05/4/2005
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Well it seems i'll start saving up some money to buy my first AMD,
now just a reminder for AMD guys, it's not polite to offend someone
just because that person makes a diferent choice in components, in
fact i haven't seen an AMD cpu doing anything that an Intel can't
do.
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SKiller at 05:53pm 04/29/2005
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Not necessarily. SMP capable games should have controls for
switching between single and smp modes, since they have to be able
to support single-core systems. SO you could run them in sp mode and
run other stuff in the background. Of course your performance won't
be as good, but that can't exactly be helped.
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Freakhead_5 at 12:17pm 04/22/2005
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once games take advantage of dual core then you won't be able to
play games and do other tasks in the background.
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Anonymous at 06:26am 04/22/2005
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AMD has every right to charge a premium price for their dual core
because it is a premium product, a true industry leader. Intel, on
the other hand must sell their dual core at rock bottom prices so
they can sell them to the uninformed who don't realize they are
buying a p.o.s.
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Anonymous at 06:21am 04/22/2005
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And I bet looking at those benchmarks felt like getting kicked in
the nuts too intel fanboy. Wow AMD wasn't kidding when they said
the K8 was designed for dual core and intel's solution is an after
the thought hack job. Intel got creamed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL.
Did you even read the article before you admitted to being an intel
fanboy? Wait, of course you didn't, intel fanboys can't read.
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Eye of the Night at 07:04pm 04/21/2005
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well, systembuilding aspects aside, in terms of performance it
depends a bit on the application which is best. With 2 cores on 1
die you have very fast communication, which reduces the efficiency
loss caused by dividing the workload amongst processors. On the
other hand, you'll only have 1 memory controller instead of 2, and
so you can't take advantage of NUMA with a single dual-core
processor, while you can take advantage of it with 2 single-core
processors. But aside from memory-bandwidth-intensive programs, most
things will run faster on a dual-core cpu than on 2 single-core
cpu's.
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dichotomy at 06:25pm 04/21/2005
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sweet, my next upgrade has been planned for q3-q4 '05 which is my
transition to 64bit proccesor, by the time I want a dual core prices
will be a little more reasonable, and I won't have to buy a new
motherboard. AMD you rock my world.
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wallshadows at 04:00pm 04/21/2005
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In english it means AMD squished together 2 A64's to make a bad #@!
momma A64 :)
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