Is there a Dual Core driver for C2D?

[Alexrose1uk]

Im building a machine for my mate, who'll obviously want it fully with all the drivers installed before I let him loose on it.

I know AMD had a driver and optimiser to make sure dual core was recognised and supported fully, and synchronised correctly, but am not able to see any sort of WindowsXP driver on the intel site for the C2D, does that mean the C2D has no such drivers and is plug and play fully once the mobo drivers are installed, or have I missed it?

Cheers.

 

[Dingleberry88]

Not a driver, but there's a hotfix which is supposed to fix performance issues in games.

 

[Corasik]

Core 2 Duo doesnt need the hotfix, or any drivers.

 

[Defcon5]

Core 2 Duo doesnt need the hotfix

Why not? It makes no difference to the os what cpu it is, just wether its dual core or not

 

[Dingleberry88]

Core 2 Duo doesnt need the hotfix, or any drivers.

Before I installed it games were unplayably jerky. After installation they ran fine.

 

[Corasik]

Before I installed it games were unplayably jerky. After installation they ran fine.

No jerkyness in games on my E6700, no hotfix installed, no issues.

 

[Corasik]

Why not? It makes no difference to the os what cpu it is, just wether its dual core or not

There were a number of games which were unstable with AMD64's without the hotfix, which ran perfectly on P4D's (and now Core 2's). Can only assume there is a difference between AMD and Intels dual core implementation.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Possibly the shared cache architecture, although its slower as both cpus call from it, it does retain the same cache data for both cpus so perhaps theres less disruption switching a thread from 1 cpu to the other.

 

[Alexrose1uk]

PS for anyone who's interested, we put it together earlier.
Its currently orthos 2004 beta *small ffts* stressing the CPU @ 3.2GHz, 1.34v Vcore(CPUZ) 1.375 (Bios), with the retail fan (+cpu paste), and hitting about 56-60 degrees C under 100% load.
Has been running solid for the last 2 hours with no fail, and hes going to leave it running in his room with the door shut, windows shut etc while he sleeps tonight, so the ambient temperature in the room hits the peak it should ever reach except for the hottest part of summer, and see whether computer says no come morning

If his computer is still Orthos stable tomorrow after running for 8+ hours, do you think he'll be able to push this CPU further, or do you think that the RAM (Geil PC6400C5 800MHz - not sure how well this overclocks on average with a little bonus Vdimm) will create the barrier at 400FSB, or the temperature will become too high?