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Now what? udated to t7400 from t2600!

post #1 of 10
1/8/07 at 8:43pm
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Have taken the plunge and upgraded the CPU to a T7600.

I do alot of video edditing, do i need to change the operating system over to 64bit to take advantage?

How buggy is Windows XP 64? will it run most of software? zone alarms excluded.

Is anybody running Vista in 64?

i just wanted your opinnions on going 64 bit.

I apreciate any answers

many thanks John
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post #2 of 10
1/8/07 at 10:14pm
64 bit is going to be a hassle and considering that you only have 2GB of ram it makes more sense that you stick with the 32 bit version of vista make sure you get a premium or ultimate edition though.
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post #3 of 10
1/9/07 at 12:20am
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Im a proffesional videographer and render vast amounts of data everyday,

its doesnt seem right to suggest that i dont take advantage of the 64bit capacity the system now has.
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post #4 of 10
1/9/07 at 12:26am
The main advantage to the 64-bit versions of XP and Vista is handling large amounts of memory, which you don't have. If I were a professional videographer that renders vast amounts of data daily I'd be more concerned with program compatability and system stability, which right now you'll get from 32-bit XP Pro.
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post #5 of 10
1/9/07 at 2:21am
i made the same upgrade but I am not willing to put up with incompatibilities with plug-ins, drivers, et al. I'd install vista or xp64 on a separate partition for testing and see how it works but first I have to enjoy using my new RAID0 set I put togather using a slim-hd adapter. here are some results
RAID

this is the single monmentus 7200.2
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post #6 of 10
1/9/07 at 2:24am
Exactly heavens forbid you start losing support for sounds and codecs due to your specific version of windows. Unless you planne don upgrading to 4GB in the near future the 32bit Vista will be overall a better solution.
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post #7 of 10
1/9/07 at 2:24am
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Trying out windows Xp x64 at the moment.

taking abit of doing as there are very limited drivers on dells supported downloads.

have had to take graphics drivers ethnent and others from the m90 downloads!!!!

i have more than one hard drive and i can keep most on another drive with xp pro on it

use one just for rendering and edditing

would love to get 4 gig but its still very expencive unless i have missed some good deals??
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post #8 of 10
1/9/07 at 2:31am
Nothing I see around that makes 4GB interesting anyway if you plan on using any OS please consider sticking with 32bit as this will be most productive for you just like you mention the lack of driver support would you on this side things only go downhill from here.
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post #9 of 10
1/9/07 at 8:58pm
This article may be a little old:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.c...d=1918&page=14

but it shows that running a 64bit OS with 64bit binaries can have a significant positive effect for some applications, and a significantly negative effect on others.
One of the advantages of 64bit is the support for a larger memory space. However, every element will take twice the space, and since memory speed stays constant, some programs will suffer. It would be very interesting if you can run both the 32bit and 64bit versions of cinebench, and maybe a few of the other tests shown in the article and post the results. I haven't found any Core 2 benchmarks, but I only looked for 5 minutes.

Here's one more article:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1860212,00.asp

again, only PentiumD vs Athlon

For me, the performance advantage is not worth the compatibility hassles. However, if the programs you are using daily show a 10-15% speedup, then go for it.
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post #10 of 10
1/10/07 at 8:56am
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I have done the bench marks as requested

CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester : john

Processor : t7400
MHz : 2.13 core 2
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : xp pro x64

Graphics Card : nvidia 7900gtx
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

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Rendering (Single CPU): 373 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 693 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.85

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 411 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1581 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 3509 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 8.55

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CINEBENCH 2003 v1
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Tester : john

Processor T7400
MHz : 2.13 core 2
Number of CPUs : 2
Operating System : xp pro

Graphics Card : nvdia 7900gtx
Resolution : <fill this out>
Color Depth : <fill this out>

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Rendering (Single CPU): 371 CB-CPU
Rendering (Multiple CPU): 677 CB-CPU

Multiprocessor Speedup: 1.83

Shading (CINEMA 4D) : 415 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Software Lighting) : 1591 CB-GFX
Shading (OpenGL Hardware Lighting) : 2762 CB-GFX

OpenGL Speedup: 6.65

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some intresting results

espesialy on the graphics hardware rendering

what do you think?

can any body who has an m1710 with the 2.16 duo t2600 run this test too so i dont have to change the cpu back to see what performance increase has been gained

many thnaks
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