Does Dual Core2 make sense?

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atlantis11500 · #1 Post by **atlantis11500** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:43 am

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#2 Post by **tomh009** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:31 am

What exactly did you turn off? And what does XP not support? (It does support multiple cores, as well as multiple physical CPUs.)

brentpresley · #3 Post by **brentpresley** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:42 am

Can someone translate that for me? It didn't make any sense.

atlantis11500 · #4 Post by **atlantis11500** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:37 am

brentpresley wrote:Can someone translate that for me? It didn't make any sense.

Hey, man, besides English, what other languages can you speak?

pianowizard · #5 Post by **pianowizard** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:57 am

atlantis11500 wrote:............

What happened? Was the problem resolved?

#6 Post by **tomh009** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 11:15 am

Atlantis, can you please try to explain again the issue you had?

brentpresley · #7 Post by **brentpresley** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:08 pm

atlantis11500 wrote:
brentpresley wrote:Can someone translate that for me? It didn't make any sense.
Hey, man, besides English, what other languages can you speak?

Not trying to be rude, but it was REALLY unclear.

(Spanish, to answer your smarta$$ question).

rleo25 · #8 Post by **rleo25** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:32 pm

Nothing with this post makes any sense, could you be more specific, develop something please...

ronan_zj · #9 Post by **ronan_zj** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:57 pm

i can speak chinese and english,
but , I dont know whats the point coz I cant see ady words there.
maybe he has deleted,

atlantis11500 · #10 Post by **atlantis11500** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:18 am

Ok, sorry for my terrible English. I'll try to make my question short and clear.

I have bought a T60 D64 which has Dual Core2 CPUs right? But, however, it seams that Windows XP is not completely support this new feature. Because when I double click on any one of my folders to open it, the wait cursor displays and I can clearly feel the delay. However, it becomes faster if I turn this feature off via BIOS settings(Performance Settings table).

I know Dual Core2 performance better when running mulltiple tasks at the same time, but i cannot bear if Windows Explorer slows down.

You guys can make a compare with this feature on/off. Even though Vista completely support this feature, but i have to pay extra money to upgrade to Vista.

Zeus · #11 Post by **Zeus** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:17 am

that doesn't make sense... turning off the 2nd core should show you nothing put performance loss. XP does fully support dual-core

#12 Post by **tomh009** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:07 am

atlantis11500 wrote:I have bought a T60 D64 which has Dual Core2 CPUs right? But, however, it seams that Windows XP is not completely support this new feature. Because when I double click on any one of my folders to open it, the wait cursor displays and I can clearly feel the delay. However, it becomes faster if I turn this feature off via BIOS settings(Performance Settings table).

Windows XP does support dual cores (and dual CPUs, for a long time now). When I set up my dad's T60 (Core 2 Duo T7200) I did not see any UI delays at all, in Explorer or otherwise. So I think the culprit is something else ...

Are you seeing the delays for all the folders, regardless of where they are? How long are the delays? Have you had the delays since you got the ThinkPad?

pianowizard · #13 Post by **pianowizard** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 10:17 am

Zeus wrote:turning off the 2nd core should show you nothing put performance loss.

I just tried it and got the same result: even simple net surfing got slowed down dramatically. atlantis11500, what are the specs of your machine? Do you have enough RAM? Are you using a 4200rpm hard drive?

brentpresley · #14 Post by **brentpresley** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 11:16 am

This smells of a driver issue for the dual-core.

It has been a while since I looked at this, but if I recall correctly, there is an option that needs to be added to the boot.ini file to tell the kernel to use two cores. MOST of the time this is done automatically (especially if you do a clean install after you install the CPU), but upgrades don't always catch it.

With a dual core CPU, your computer should be MUCH more responsive than with one core. If it is not, something is not configured correctly.

atlantis11500 · #15 Post by **atlantis11500** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 9:54 pm

pianowizard wrote:
Zeus wrote:turning off the 2nd core should show you nothing put performance loss.
I just tried it and got the same result: even simple net surfing got slowed down dramatically. atlantis11500, what are the specs of your machine? Do you have enough RAM? Are you using a 4200rpm hard drive?

Here is the details:
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T60 D64 T5600
1.83G
1G RAM
80G 5400rpm/8MB
14.1SXGA+ ATI X1400 128M
56K/1Gb/802.11g
FPR/BT
COMBO

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