I was just wondering what the 3200 in the Amd Athlon 64 3200+ means. Is that supposed to mean that its comparable to the pentium 4 3.2 ghz processor in performance?
I have an AMD 64 3200+ in my laptop.... IT ROCKS. I had my F@H on a P4 3.2 GHz yesterday. I closed it and moved it to my new laptop and ran the second half of the same protein....
P4 was averaging just under 9 minutes per frame. My AMD64 3200+ was doing it in just under <b>six</b> minutes!!!!!!
I have an Emachines T6410 with AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, ATI radeon xpress 200, running windows XP 32 bit. I am not getting the speed I should be getting. Can someone tell me what I can do to improve performance. What I have noticed is that the processor usage in taskbar is always more than 50% even I am not running any application. Would 64bit windows help me? PLZ help.
If they check you out as clean, you might be better off starting a new thread with a more specific title, like "Help me optimize my A64 3200+". There are lots of people capable of giving you great advice who might skip this thread as it is rather old and too general.
Would 64bit windows help me?
Once there are 64-Bit applications available that would be a great idea. But, no matter what OS you run, with 50% CPU usage you are still going to have trouble. You should check that out first.
I have an Emachines T6410 with AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 512 MB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, ATI radeon xpress 200, running windows XP 32 bit. I am not getting the speed I should be getting. Can someone tell me what I can do to improve performance. What I have noticed is that the processor usage in taskbar is always more than 50% even I am not running any application. Would 64bit windows help me? PLZ help.
Do you have onboard Video? If so its stealing memory and performance. Grab a DX9 video card You can grab a ATI 9600XT, 9700 Pro, 9800 Pro (all 128MB) used for $75-$125 these days
Also consider upgrading to 1GB memory.
But bear in mind with an Emachine, you're not going to reach the performance level of a tweaked out, self assembled machine (Better, faster, overclockable motherboard, Highspeed memory etc)
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In most benchmarks, it performs a little over that as well
P4 was averaging just under 9 minutes per frame. My AMD64 3200+ was doing it in just under <b>six</b> minutes!!!!!!
If they check you out as clean, you might be better off starting a new thread with a more specific title, like "Help me optimize my A64 3200+". There are lots of people capable of giving you great advice who might skip this thread as it is rather old and too general.
Once there are 64-Bit applications available that would be a great idea. But, no matter what OS you run, with 50% CPU usage you are still going to have trouble. You should check that out first.
Also consider upgrading to 1GB memory.
But bear in mind with an Emachine, you're not going to reach the performance level of a tweaked out, self assembled machine (Better, faster, overclockable motherboard, Highspeed memory etc)