Intel Application Accelerator ???

[GrumpyMF]

Hello,

Has anybody tried the Intel Application Accelerator ?

This is what the Product Overview says :

The Intel® Application Accelerator is a new performance software package for Intel desktop PCs.

[*]Download the Intel Application Accelerator

Intel Application Accelerator also provides:
[*]Faster Boot Time via Accelerated Operating System Load Time
[*]Accelerated Disk I/O for Games, Graphics Applications, Disk Utilities, and Media Authoring Applications
[*]Performance-enhancing Data Pre-fetcher for Intel® Pentium® 4 processor-based systems
[*]Support for 137GB and larger hard drives


I can't try it out yet, because I have a PC w/ an BX chipset. (Only 8.. chipsets are supported.)
I wanted to buy a new system with a desktop Palomino when they are available, but now I'm not too sure anymore.

Any feedback/experiences are greatly appreciated.

 

[FullRoast]

I'm sure that I saw a review on the web somewhere that had performance numbers that were not quite as large as the ones that Intel shows in their benchmarks. More like 0-6% improvement on the configuration that was tested. Anyone know where the review is?

I saw on the Storage Review forums that people were having trouble with CDRW's and the IAA, not able to burn CD's anymore. I haven't tried it yet myself.

 

[Wingznut]

AnandTech forum thread

Most people saw a 10-15% improvement in bootup time.

 

[DimZiE]

i've never seen any improvement in performance...

oh yeah the system was PIII 733 w/ the ASUS CUSL-2 (815 Chipser)

 

[FullRoast]

Clarification - when I said 0-6% above, I was referring to disk performance, not boot times.

Wingznut - Do you know if IAA helps boot times with Win XP? I think XP has a built in optimizer that orders the driver to improve boot times.

 

[Wingznut]

I'm not sure... You might want to look through that thread that I linked, and see if anyone there is running XP.

And yeah, I knew what you meant by the 0-6%... If you happen to remember that link, would you throw it my way? Thanks.

 

[GrumpyMF]

Thanks for the replies.
After reading your replies and the other tread, I've come to the conclusion to still wait for the desktop Palomino.