You need to give Microsoft and AMD an “A for effort”; they\u2019ve once again tried to improve Bulldozer performance on the Windows 7 platform, and if they keep it up they may eventually succeed.<\/p>\n
Bulldozer can\u2019t realise its full power potential in a Windows 7 environment – thanks to the core scheduler used by the popular operating system, it can\u2019t take full advantage of the multi-core Bulldozer architecture.<\/p>\n
Microsoft attempted to address this with a patch released late in 2011, though all this managed to do was create performance issues until Microsoft pulled the patch.<\/p>\n
Not one to walk away from failure, Microsoft returned with a bigger, better patch for Bulldozer which promised more performance – again.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately the performance increase users reported was in many cases less than 1 percent, if anything at all.<\/p>\n
AMD acknowledged in a blog post that the likely performance increase would be around 1 to 2 percent at most in situations that use half of the processor’s available cores.<\/p>\n
As for heavily threaded applications that use more than four cores of an FX-8150, there will be little to no difference after the patch.<\/p>\n
If 1 percent is worth the effort to you, grab the hotfixes here<\/a><\/strong> and here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …and fails, again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":30657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[31,1051,1726,91],"class_list":["post-30656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-pc","tag-active","tag-amd","tag-bulldozer","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30660,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30656\/revisions\/30660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}