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Is there any benefit to installing this driver? Will i see any stability or performance improvement?
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Any point to AMD's dual core driver.
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from what I remember, the amd driver was only for cool & quiet. I never used it when I was running my 165 and I never had any stability issues. It may be different now, but I doubt it.
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There are reports of increases... heck take a look at this thread... the first post has a like that talks all about it
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=505134
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=505134
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The A64 (X2, Opty or otherwise) drivers are just for Cool n Quiet as far as I'm aware.
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From what i know, I was pretty sure the driver was to solve compatibility issues with older programs etc and prevent issues with BSOD and the like with older programs
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-_{MoW}_-Assasi said:
That's what I think. I was having some issues with a couple games and the driver fixed them. I think it had something to do with the load transfering back and forth between cores and the driver fixed that.
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In any case, it doesn't hurt. Just install it is my opinion. At worst you've wasted a few min and <1MB of HDD, at best you've increased your performance a bit.
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all the AMD cpu driver is, is a micosoft hotfix (not one automatically downloaded) bundeled in a amd exe, that also changes 1 registry setting and puts one thing in the boot.ini file... click on that like i posted and it will explain.
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I was having stability issues until I downloaded everything for dual core opteron off the AMD website. Some of those applications were useless, but the AMD Power Monitor is kinda neat.... kinda.
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I've found it to smooth out gameplay myself... although I've never had any issues on the desktop.
I've always used these instructions... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429
I've always used these instructions... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429
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-_{MoW}_-Assasi said:
I agree with that. I've never seen a BSOD on my AMD System..now on my intel rig...hrm...too many to count.
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