Improve your Athlon X2 performance on Windows XP!

I found a tutorial (in spanish) on how to improve your perfomances when using a AMD Athlon X2 processor (any) on Windows XP (not applicable to x64 XP or Windows Vista).

So here I'm translating it for you.

Tested on: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+

This works for any AMD X2 processor.

I really reccomend you to do this, it really works!!

Let's start:


1. Install the AMD Classic drivers: Download here


2. REBOOT

3. Download and Install Microsoft HotFix for Dual Core processors: Download here

4. REBOOT

5. Edit registry (skip if it's already done):

• Start menu, run, regedit and click OK.
• Go to key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager, select New followed by Key.
• Write Throttle as the name of the new key.
• Right click on Throttle, New and click DWORD value .
• Write PerfEnablePackageIdle as the value's name.
• Right click on PerfEnablePackageIdle, and click on Modify.
• Write 1 in the value's box. Make sure it's set to hexadecimal. Click OK.
• Close registry editor.

6. Install the AMD Dual Core Optimizer. Download here.

7. REBOOT (Don't be lazy)

8. Make sure that your BOOT.INI (in msconfig) shows a /usepmtimer at the end. It should look like this:

9. Finally, install a critical HotFix from Microsoft. Download here.

10. REBOOT


11. Enjoy!!!

 

I tried these steps on my old laptop, but in step 8, where it says
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Micro soft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer
mine doesnt say "usepmtimer"
any ideas?

 

Add the /usepmtimer at the end.

 

Thanks alot.

 

Thanks for the tips!

 

I already knew that