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ggrobot
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 Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:12 am Post subject: Windows XP SP2 vs SP1 Performance Comparison [17128] |
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Microsoft released Service Pack 2 and millions installed it. Did boat anchors come with the enhancements?
ShortMedia threw 108 benchmarks at Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 in an attempt to declare a winner:
The test PC equipped with Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 was an average of 0.5% faster than
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FX5900
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| HA! And all the ATI video card owners drop back to service pack 2. HAHAHAHAHAA |
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sikapossu
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| FX5900 wrote: | | HA! And all the ATI video card owners drop back to service pack 2. HAHAHAHAHAA |
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wka0
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Well here is a no brainer, SP2 is doing more its generally a more tougher OS than SP1 and such uses more resources.
The firewall is more comprehensive and it all takes ram, why not try comparing when disabling all the services that provide security. |
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Sabot
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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| FX5900 wrote: | | HA! And all the ATI video card owners drop back to service pack 2. HAHAHAHAHAA |
Wow that's a clever reply, since Service pack 2 is *forwards* 
OS are like cars, only about 40% of the power produced by a car is actualy *used* The rest is used in overcoming friction etc and lost in convection. Same goes for the OS, as wka0 said, the more calculations and intensive processes that the CPU has to do and manage -the less reserved for anything like games!
Pretty damn obvious. |
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El_Coyote
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| *shrugs* my computer can handle it, so it's not a problem. |
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zort
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| Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Of course if you have an Athlon 64 3800+ with 1GB RAM, then SP2 is almost as fast as SP1. If they'd run the benchmarks on slow and average machines I think it would be a different story. |
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