Drivers AMD x A64

[fvbarc]

Ma voi li avete installati i drivers rilasciati da AMD x Win XP e gli A64?
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/...1_9706,00.html

[^SiRtA^]

No, sinceramente io non l'ho provato... Non credo ci siano "giovamenti" ma probabilmente a qualcosa serve. Io ricordo che , ad esempio, in fase di decompressione di file (molto grandi) ARJ, ZIP ecc... l'algoritmo di decompressione spesso dava errore su alcuni file.

Mi spiego meglio, un mio amico mi ha mandato una iso di linux (free logicamente) in più file da 20/30 mbyte per file. Quando li decomprimevo , il winrar mi diceva che alcuni file erano danneggiati. Eseguita la stessa operazione su un'altra macchina, con medesima versione di windows e medesima di winrar, andava tutto perfettamente BENE.
Ora, visto il fatto che i file erano sani e che l'installazione di Winxp con sp2 su athlon64 è impeccabile e superstabile, l'anomalia può essere riconducibile alla tecnologia del processore stesso. Con tutta probabilità questo driver evita problemi simili ... problemi che penso potrebbero essere PESANTI in ambito di sviluppo quando si compila ora con c, ora con delphi ecc...


Provo

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AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP allows the system to automatically adjust the CPU speed, voltage and power combination that match the instantaneous user performance need.



Hummmm

[^SiRtA^]

Installato ... riavvio , prima cosa che non va : il mouse non funziona più


Mah mah mah , vediamo cosa succede ora che proverò a "scrutare" le potenzialità di questa cosa ...

[Figus]

io l'ho installato da subito, ma da quello che so serve solo per la gestione del cool'n'quiet...

[fvbarc]

Dal sito della viaarena:
I have been having a couple of issues with the Last AGP system. I was getting odd freezes and lock ups when the system was sitting with a screensaver or just at the desktop for a long period of time. This was happening at odd intervals of between 3 to 8 hours. So I loaded up a whole heap of system monitoring tools, some of which were supplied with the motherboard and others free off the net like Sysmatrix and Motherboard Monitor. When the system froze I still had full view of the monitor so I could look at what these utilities could tell me about the CPU temperature, utilization, HDD activity etc. My first guess was that the motherboard was adjusting the power to the fans which was controlling the water cooling pump and the CPU may have been overheating. But the CPU showed no sign of overheating and during lock-ups it was sitting on an extremely suspiciously cool 22/23 degrees (Celsius). One thing I did notice with one of the lock-ups was that the front side bus was sitting at about 186 instead of 200. So I sat and watched the CPU speed for a while and noticed that it would go up and down, fluctuation between 15-20% around the norm. This was only happening when the system was idle. If I was running a 3D app or a benchmark it was rock solid at 2.4GHz. Then I remembered my laptop had a CPU driver. In essence, this driver offers the same feature as the PowerNow! utility for Athlon XPs. It allows the operating system to control the CPU to save power. When the system was idle it would slow down the CPU to reduce the power consumption. After I downloaded and installed the driver from AMD's web site I no longer had any problem. Maybe the default WinXP driver had been dropping the voltage too low. Now the temperature when the system is idle sits around 40 degrees (Celsius).

[B|Gf00t]

io lo installai da subito... anche xè in gioventù l'a64 faceva a cazzotti con diverse cose di windows... e questi driver han risolto diversi problemi.