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Windows XP SP2 vs SP1 Performance Comparison - tech|
| (hx) 09:12 AM CEST - Oct,18 2004 |  | | SP1 |
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 | | SP2-clean install shows 4 extra processes and 42 extra megabytes added to SP2 on the test system |
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Microsoft released Service Pack 2 and millions installed it. Did boat anchors
come with the enhancements?
ShortMedia
threw 108 benchmarks at Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2 in an attempt to
declare a winner:
The test PC equipped with Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 was an average of 0.5% faster than the same hardware with Service Pack 2 installed. The percentage difference between faster and slower is insignificantly small. Less than 2 or 3 percent in some benchmarks could be dismissed by most but when gamers are looking to squeeze every extra frame out of their machines...it may count.
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last 10 comments: | FX5900 | (09:36 AM CEST - Oct,18 2004 ) | | HA! And all the ATI video card owners drop back to service pack 2. HAHAHAHAHAA |
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| sikapossu | (09:51 AM CEST - Oct,18 2004 ) | FX5900> HA! And all the ATI video card owners drop back to service pack 2. HAHAHAHAHAA
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| wka0 | (02:30 PM CEST - Oct,18 2004 ) | Well here is a no brainer, SP2 is doing more its generally a more tougher OS than SP1 and such uses more resources.
The firewall is more comprehensive and it all takes ram, why not try comparing when disabling all the services that provide security. |
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| Sabot | (03:14 PM CEST - Oct,18 2004 ) | FX5900> HA! And all the ATI video card owners drop back to service pack 2. HAHAHAHAHAA
Wow that's a clever reply, since Service pack 2 is *forwards* :roll:
OS are like cars, only about 40% of the power produced by a car is actualy *used* The rest is used in overcoming friction etc and lost in convection. Same goes for the OS, as wka0 said, the more calculations and intensive processes that the CPU has to do and manage -the less reserved for anything like games!
Pretty damn obvious. |
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| El_Coyote | (06:13 PM CEST - Oct,18 2004 ) | | *shrugs* my computer can handle it, so it's not a problem. |
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| zort | (12:22 AM CEST - Oct,19 2004 ) | | Of course if you have an Athlon 64 3800+ with 1GB RAM, then SP2 is almost as fast as SP1. If they'd run the benchmarks on slow and average machines I think it would be a different story. |
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