Author: Tim Foden
Date: 08:58:19 08/20/01
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On August 20, 2001 at 10:58:22, José Carlos wrote: > Sorry for the off-topic, but I think this is interesting for people here, in >order to make decisions. > I've recently bought a Athlon 1.3 (1Gb RAM). I want to create a huge book for >my program. I wanted to install Win2000 Server with SQL Server 2000, but some >friends have told me Win2000-Athlon don't work properly. I have been running Win2K using an AMD Duron for a few months now. I have not found any incompatibility problems with the CPU. I used the same Duron with WinNT4.0 for quite a while before this. I am a programmer, and I work from home. I use this system every day, all day. I leave it switched on for long periods of time (e.g. weeks at a time). >It's a lot of money, so >I want to be sure. They say that if you run intensive cpu tasks, the system >don't respond for a long time. I would respond to this with 2 separate points: 1. When running *very* cpu intensive tasks, Win2K *can* take a long time to respond. I find this when analysing positions at a command prompt with my winboard chess prog Green Light. Also to a lesser extent when running RARS simulations, my RARS driving path solver (see rars.sourceforge.net), or my compiler. I solve it by reducing the the priority of the process (this is easy under WinNT/Win2K). 2. I don't believe this is due to the processor. I think it is due to changes MS has made to the OS. I could be wrong :) WinNT4 was fine. I expect they were trying to increase the performance of the OS, but I think they have gone too far somewhere. Cheers, Tim.
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