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| cmoses:
I have a Asus P5GC-MX/1333 motherboard with a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8Ghz CPU, 2MB of RAM and a 1MB nVidia 9400GT video card that I have been setting up for a cocktail cabinet that I am building. I have Windows XP 32 bit on there and it has been running everything pretty well even with HLSL on. I recently purchased 4MB of RAM and decided that I would load Windows XP64 on there thinking I would get a boost to the OS and also from running MAME64. Well I tried it out and it seemed to run slower than when I had 2MB and Win XP32. I also tried Windows 7 x64 and it seemed slow as well. I didn't go in and do a lot of tweaking with either Win XP64 or Win 7x64 but they both seemed to be running slower even just at the OS level. Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas on the issue. Could there be some setting or something that needs to be tweaked on the motherboard for x64 OSes? With this system what is the consensus as to OS that should be running on there. I have access to Windows XP 32 & 64 bit as well as Windows 7 32 & 64 bit. Thanks |
| Malenko:
what speed is the new RAM? What speed is the old RAM? I hope your nVidia 9400GT has 1GB of memory and not 1 MB |
| cmoses:
Yes it is 1GB of RAM on the 9400GT. The memory sticks were the same speed, they were both PC5300. |
| ark_ader:
As kit gets faster our perception makes it seem slower. |
| Dawgz Rule:
Could be a number of things... At best, I think you would only see a marginal performance improvement with the given hardware. You might even be better off going back to XP32 as it would at least get the benefit of at least one more gig of memory (or even slightly more than that.) You could be constrained by your hard drive and you could also be constrained if you are running 32 bit apps...especially AV. WinXP 32 SP3 is pretty stable for mame and is pretty mature from a driver/optimization point of view. |
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