Drivers for a CPU

[Wicked Klown]

Has anyone heard of drivers for an AMD CPU, I was at another site and some guy was told to download new drivers for his CPU. Cause of where it say in Device Manager in Windows XP.

 

[bobt17]

yup i'm running winxp home and i downloaded new drivers for my xp processor... not sure what they did tho i didnt see a difference

 

[Wicked Klown]

Ok seems weird tho cause it says that with my T-Bird as well. Never would've thought a CPU needed drivers.

 

[Yodums]

Me either I got them at the Windows Update.

 

[Jeniva]

same here..in my device manager under Win XP it actually has a Processor catagory..

 

[T20]

yes they do make a difference.

Make a clean install, then press alt-ctr-del. You will see proc usage is like 3-10% while doing nuthing or browsing the net. With the new drivers my CPU usage went to 0%-4%. I think it simply optimizes kernel for AMD's instruction set. Not sure

 

[David]

yes they do make a difference.

Make a clean install, then press alt-ctr-del. You will see proc usage is like 3-10% while doing nuthing or browsing the net. With the new drivers my CPU usage went to 0%-4%. I think it simply optimizes kernel for AMD's instruction set. Not sure

Yes, the drivers provide support for AMD processors - allow MMX, 3dnow etc optomisations.

There will be similar ones for Pentium4s - using SSE/SSE2

 

[The Coolest]

can any one put up a link? or do I just do Windows Update?

 

[David]

can any one put up a link? or do I just do Windows Update?

Windows update should do it

 

[The Coolest]

Are u 100% cause I really don't feel like downloading lots of stuff w/ a 56K modem, so I have to be 100% sure..

 

[David]

Are u 100% cause I really don't feel like downloading lots of stuff w/ a 56K modem, so I have to be 100% sure..

I did it all on a 46.6k connection
Just leave it overnight if there are a lot of dls.

 

[The Coolest]

I checked and downloaded some updates... but there were no driver updates for the CPU, only Sound card and NIC driver updates.. whacha think? I'm running WinXP on my Duron.

 

[AthlonUser]

Didnt find them either

 

[David]

Check out tweak XP - www.tweak-xp.com I think - this allows you to enable a CPU 'tweak' - supported tweaks are for AMD K6-2, K6-3, Duron, Athlon and Athlon Thunderbird, Cyrix M3, Intel Celeron A/II, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium III E/EB, Pentium4.