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    wPrime scores off?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by benx009, Feb 21, 2008.

  1. benx009

    benx009 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all, this has probably been asked before, but I have both XP and Vista installed on my system, and I'm confused as to why the 32M wPrime scores for my T7250 are so drastically different. In XP, I get around 46s while in Vista, that score drops significantly down to 40s. Does this mean that Vista is technically the faster OS :rolleyes: ??
     
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  2. wprime

    wprime Newbie

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    Yes, Vista is far superior at multithreading than XP (wprime leaves threading to the OS). XP moves each logical thread between different physical threads during multithreaded tasks. Great for evening load on single threaded tasks, but a nightmare for multithreaded performance.
     
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  3. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Commander Wolf, Feb 22, 2008
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