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Yes. See discussion here:

http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=298

Bioboffin wrote:
> Yes. See discussion here:
>
> http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=298

22% only?

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Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Bioboffin wrote:
>> Yes. See discussion here:
>>
>> http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=298
>
> 22% only?
>

Is that 22% advantage a result of faster clock speed, or really due to
64-bit addressing and mathematics?


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Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Bioboffin wrote:
>> Yes. See discussion here:
>>
>> http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=298
>
> 22% only?

They don't take into account improved preloading into virtual memory
capabilities which affects how fast applications run. Subjectively, I find
x64 'feels' a lot faster.

Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> Bioboffin wrote:
>>> Yes. See discussion here:
>>>
>>> http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=298
>>
>> 22% only?
>>
>
> Is that 22% advantage a result of faster clock speed, or really due to
> 64-bit addressing and mathematics?

As they were comparing a (dual boot) win 32 installation with a win 54
installation on the same machine, it can't have anything to do with the
clock speed.

Ah, but 22% is bordering on 'huge'. If people start seing that kind of
increase from a processor upgrade, everybody starts thinking about having a
vacation.

But to really have a figure that means something, you would have to take a
statistic figure on the performance of your own chip over the duration of
the sort of excercise you exposed it to, and compare that to the same kind
of statistic calculated for 'that other' chip over a comparable period after
you upgrade. Then you could see what kind of benefit you had from the
upgrade.

Benchmarks really only compare to themselves, they are really only another
kind of religion. Someone else running the same BM as you could arrive at a
different result, and if you run different BM's you can have differing
results every time.

But I agree, it feels significantly faster, and I run BM's to, myself - that
is the important part. If you go out and spend your money and don't feel
there's a benefit, no matter what the Benchmarks said, you would feel
cheated. But if the BM agrees with you own experience, then the fun really
beginns.


Tony. . .


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> Bioboffin wrote:
>> Yes. See discussion here:
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>> http://www.passmark.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=298
>
> 22% only?
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I noticed that Office 2003 installs really fast, Photoshop 7 opens really
fast, it still boots really fast, so I guess there are some performance
improvements.
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Yup. One thing I've noticed both with a 64-bit amd single core running 32
bit windows and with a 64-bit dual-core running x64 that programs install
very quickly. I like that.


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>I noticed that Office 2003 installs really fast, Photoshop 7 opens really
>fast, it still boots really fast, so I guess there are some performance
>improvements.

This is on a AMD Sempron 2600, 1.6 GHz.
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"DP" <> wrote in message
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> Yup. One thing I've noticed both with a 64-bit amd single core running 32
> bit windows and with a 64-bit dual-core running x64 that programs install
> very quickly. I like that.
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I noticed that Office 2003 installs really fast, Photoshop 7 opens really
>>fast, it still boots really fast, so I guess there are some performance
>>improvements.
>
>