Tantawi Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Hi All, As my PC got a noticeable performance improvments since I installed XP SP2, I decided to dig for the reason, and here's what I've found so far, My P4 CPU has got new a driver, dated 1st April 2004! :laugh: Check the attachment. (I'm not using the default date format :) ) So what about your CPU? AMD owners? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AcdShdw Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 what beifit is the new driver for teh cpu? faster pr0n dl's?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Good find Tantawi (Y) Mayb thats why its workin faster for us Intel users ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STPhastPhaser Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Interesting.... My Celeron Laptop has the same date on the updated drivers as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foonacha Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Same driver date on my AMD 3000+. Can`t say i`ve noticed any speed increases so far though :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kawai Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 same as my athlon xp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuarterSwede Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 IE did seem to start up extremely fast. That just may be a placebo effect though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null_ Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 My Athlon XP 2500+ has the same driver date. And it's ALOT faster, more stable, and more responsive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 For Intel at least, it add support for the Dothan Pentium M for Power Management (Proper SpeedStepping). There is no super dooper hoopla for anything else. Your performance increase came from somewhere else not the Processor Driver. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretforce Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 SP1, Still same version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomn Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I dont think the updated driver has anything to do with speed increase people have noticed. SP2 includes recompiled versions of many core files, and this is much more likely to be the reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretforce Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Is this the same in SP2 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foonacha Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I think it`s more likely the processor drivers were rewritten to add support for this new DEP tech they`ve put into SP2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 I think it`s more likely the processor drivers were rewritten to add support for this new DEP tech they`ve put into SP2. Most likely, but why wud Intel's be updated? Meh, its all good, long as it works right (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince21 Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 yeah i got the updated driver too, whoooot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Most likely, but why wud Intel's be updated? Meh, its all good, long as it works right (Y) Do you like not reading the whole thread or just the end of it? LOOK UP I said why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klownicle Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 w00t, my date is closer :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffra Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 ^i was just going to comment that mine is 4/1/2004 (pentium 4). and i read it as 4th january:D so either, 4/1 or 1/4, depends on your location settings, i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantawi Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 (edited) Great! everyone has an updated driver here :) And as I said in the first post, I use customized settings, It's dated 1st April 2004. USA people should be 4/1/2004 :) but in Egypt and the rest of world, hopefully :p, we read it 1/4/2004. Regards. Edited August 10, 2004 by Tantawi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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