PC bottleneck

[Snake-Chiken]

Intel Application Accelerator

Make your PC go appreciably faster for free thank to Intel


A major performance bottleneck on a PC is fetching data from the hard drive, much of the time your processor is waiting around for new data to arrive. Intel, bless them, have looked at this and come up with a efficient new driver for your ATA interface which replaces Microsoft’s Windows driver. All your IDE drives will benefit, including ATAPI CD-ROM and DVD drives and even removeable drives.

Among the features are a data pre-fetcher for Pentium 4s, automatic selection of the best DMA transfer mode and support for drives of over 137GB. You can also mix DMA transfer modes on the same IDE channel. It comes replete with a diagnostic utility and plenty of documentation. It has been pretty thoroughly tested and has passed through Microsoft’s Hardware Quality Labs.

The results, according to Intel figures, are pretty impressive. On a Pentium 4 system boot time is 58 per cent faster and even more impressively, the Winbech 99 figures are 34 per cent faster, nice.




**I havent tested this myself guys so use it at your own risk***

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/

I will test it out tonight.

[CluckerChiken]

Í'll wait for someone to test it :P

[Animal|BiB]

I'll give it a crack, if my comp blows up i'll blame you

[LoogieChiken]

I am gonna try - hey... it may work on AMD...........

now which wire goes where? ah yes...... *pop* *fizzle*

[Animal|BiB]

well what do ya know, it actually works
i've only loaded up MSN and i.e but the load time was actually quite a bit quicker
don't know if it's relevant but i have an Intel 82810 Chipset, P3

[CluckerChiken]

Now try a benchmark and see if it really makes a difference...

[Animal|BiB]

that woulda helped if i benchmarked before runnin it, but it is without a doubt quick
Adobe takes half the time it usually does to load now

[LoogieChiken]

Well it wont go on my work machine ( wrong chipset ) and it won't go on our server for same reason....... bah i say to theeeee

[Snake-Chiken]

Well it wont go on my work machine ( wrong chipset ) and it won't go on our server for same reason....... bah i say to theeeee

what chipset you got mate?

There is other versions of this...just I havent looked. :shock:

[VectorSigma[9th]]

You know winxp has this really nifty feature called restore?

It really works sometimes!

[Snake-Chiken]

LOL you should check the if your motherboard is supported and it dosnt work on windows 2000 pro for some reason.

Anyhow its one of them things that if it works for your system youl love it. Not to big a deal but handy for users on low end systems trying to squeeze the last bit of cpu power from there system

[Animal|BiB]

end of the night, and you know what, no problems, hey i think this accelerator really works

[CosmicChiken]

It came with my P4C800 Deluxe MB...I loaded it, but I didn't really see much difference. I'm not a benchmarker type of guy, I just go by application responsiveness and it seems good either way.

Then again, my drives have 8Mb of on cache...so starvation doesn't seem to be a problem.

[AsmodChiken]

I wish I could use the driver with the system I have. Unfortunatly I've got an AMD Athlon XP 1800+

Maybe not as cool (or as expensive) as a p4. But it's a nice space heater for my room in the winter :)