- Jan 30, 2000
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I know a lot of people have been wondering about enabling DMA in Win2k. In the newest issue of PowerWin2000, the author, Serdar Yegulalp, reviews the tweaking program called X-Setup which can be found at Xteq.com. Here's a paragraph from his review.
"After working with the program for a mere ten minutes, I enabled a few options that gave my machine a giant performance boost. Windows 2000 users, take note: If you have an UDMA/66 IDE controller in your computer, 66MB/sec transfers aren't enabled by default -- not even if you specify in the Device Manager that all devices are to use DMA transfers. X-Setup provides the option to enable full 66MB/sec speed in Win2K, under Hardware | Misc | Windows 2000 UDMA/66. I also found out that Win2K sets its Level 2 Cache settings, by default, to 256K. My machine supports 512K of L2 cache, so I browsed to System | Memory | Windows NT/2K Level 2 Cache and set it to 512. Boom! Another big boost in performance."
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"After working with the program for a mere ten minutes, I enabled a few options that gave my machine a giant performance boost. Windows 2000 users, take note: If you have an UDMA/66 IDE controller in your computer, 66MB/sec transfers aren't enabled by default -- not even if you specify in the Device Manager that all devices are to use DMA transfers. X-Setup provides the option to enable full 66MB/sec speed in Win2K, under Hardware | Misc | Windows 2000 UDMA/66. I also found out that Win2K sets its Level 2 Cache settings, by default, to 256K. My machine supports 512K of L2 cache, so I browsed to System | Memory | Windows NT/2K Level 2 Cache and set it to 512. Boom! Another big boost in performance."
I find his newsletter very helpful, so suscribe to it if you like. Here's the link to suscribe:
http://www.winmag.com/subscribe/ just a little plug for a helpful newsletter.
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