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Pentium 4 improvements

Kali · 2001-05-15 16:06:00

For anyone with a Pentium 4: http://www.aceshardware.com/#N25000419 apparently there is a BIOS option that by default is enabled (Compatibile FPU OPCODE). The option is there for backwards compatibility with old MS-DOS mode. Disabling this should lead to up to a 17% FPU increase.

15-05-2001 5:06pm

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Kali

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For anyone with a Pentium 4:

http://www.aceshardware.com/#N25000419

apparently there is a BIOS option that by default is enabled (Compatibile FPU OPCODE).

The option is there for backwards compatibility with old MS-DOS mode.

Disabling this should lead to up to a 17% FPU increase.

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#2 16-05-2001 12:56am

Gerry

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hehe, dunno how many people have pentium 4's yet, but if you do, could you post and let us know what you think...

There's some a few nice optimizations for the p4 now, for example the new nvidia 12.10 drivers, which you can read about on www.tomshardware.com

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