Intel Application Accelerator: Anyone use it?

[Night201]

Is it worth it? Have you noticed any improvements?

 

[yoda291]

Is that the update to IDE interface or that program that crashes winxp. I don't remember

 

[Trader05]

Speeds up a little..it updates ide drivers, and stable program to my knowledge

 

[schdaddy]

its useless - all it does is set your drives for DMA
which can be done in the BIOS & device manager (for some reason I believe intel boards default to PIO mode)

 

[Ausm]

I use it and I have found it to work flawlessly using WinXP Pro.

Ausm

 

[AndyHui]

They give best improvements under Win2K, some consistent 10% increase in performance (boot times were measured).

Microsoft's WinXP IDE Drivers are a lot more aggressive as compared to the Win2K drivers, so the difference is not as pronounced.

 

[SP33Demon]

Where do I d/l these? Will they work with an AMD CPU? I'm using win2k...

 

[schdaddy]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Where do I d/l these? Will they work with an AMD CPU? I'm using win2k...

ftp://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/bt2/iata_enu.exe
but I'm sure it only works on Intel chipsets

 

[SP33Demon]

Thanks sch, I'll try it anyway...

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
Thanks sch, I'll try it anyway...

It almost certainly won't work, and will probably screw something up. It's called the Intel Application Accelerator for a reason. 😉