Athlon 64 dual-core question

[Hackworth]

I've just taken advantage of the recent dramatic price drops and installed
an Athlon 64 X2 4400+.

I installed the latest AMD CPU driver for CnQ. I also installed the
dual-core patch from Microsoft (and created the new Throttle key for the
registry and inside there, the PerfEnablePackageIdle DWORD set to 1).

My question: Is it still necessary to install Microsoft's dual-core fix and
do the registry hack now that the AMD Dual Core Optimizer is available at
AMD's site?

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html

 

[Paul]

I've just taken advantage of the recent dramatic price drops and installed
an Athlon 64 X2 4400+.

I installed the latest AMD CPU driver for CnQ. I also installed the
dual-core patch from Microsoft (and created the new Throttle key for the
registry and inside there, the PerfEnablePackageIdle DWORD set to 1).

My question: Is it still necessary to install Microsoft's dual-core fix and
do the registry hack now that the AMD Dual Core Optimizer is available at
AMD's site?

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html

"How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way."
(Updated with comments about Optimizer)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429

Paul

 

[Hackworth]

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html

"How to install the AMD X2 drivers, hotfix, the correct way."
(Updated with comments about Optimizer)

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=81429

Paul

Thanks. I've read all the arguments pro and con, and how the new AMD
Dual-Core Optimizer is actually the replacement for the Microsoft Hotfix,
but I just went ahead and did what this guy did, which was to install
install both. Everything seems to be working flawlessly, so I'll just keep
it this way until something happens that gives me cause to uninstall the MS
Hotifx.