Re: Athlon 64 dual-core question

In article <lvOdnWuOv9skh03ZnZ2dnUVZ_tWdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Hackworth"
<NoSpam4Me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've just taken advantage of the recent dramatic price drops and installed
an Athlon 64 X2 4400+.

I installed the latest AMD CPU driver for CnQ. I also installed the
dual-core patch from Microsoft (and created the new Throttle key for the
registry and inside there, the PerfEnablePackageIdle DWORD set to 1).

My question: Is it still necessary to install Microsoft's dual-core fix and
do the registry hack now that the AMD Dual Core Optimizer is available at
AMD's site?


http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html

"How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way."
(Updated with comments about Optimizer)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429

Paul
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