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*new* Intel® Application Accelerator - 2.1 Final

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Intel Application Accelerator 2.1 Build 2124

Changes in Current Version:
[*]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

Beta here & Final version here
 
remember this is only for those with Intel Chipsets. If you have an SIS chipset like myself, you probably shouldn't try to use these. 🙂
 
These are optional IDE drivers, not chipset drivers.

These are still for i8xx chipsets, not for 440 chipsets.
 
funny how many people get pissed because via chipsets have drivers, ALi, SiS, Intel all have drivers, but VIA gets crapped on for having them.
 


<< funny how many people get pissed because via chipsets have drivers, ALi, SiS, Intel all have drivers, but VIA gets crapped on for having them. >>

These are not necessary. Unlike VIA?s 4in1 drivers, which are basically required to get the most out of your VIA chipset. The Intel Application Accelerator is just that, an app accelerator.
 
funny how many people get pissed because via chipsets have drivers, ALi, SiS, Intel all have drivers, but VIA gets crapped on for having them

The difference between Intel's INF drivers and VIA's 4-in-1s is that VIA's drivers contain workarounds for their chipset hardware problems while Intel's do not because Intel doesn't have hardware problems in the first place.

Also these aren't chipset drivers, they're optional IDE drivers that improve disk I/O performance. You don't need them and in fact Microsoft's Windows XP's IDE drivers for Intel chipsets are superb.
 
I think that claiming that Intel doesn't release drivers to fix problems with their chipsets is stretching things a bit. Intel has in fact historically released MANY versions of their chipset drivers to address a host of specific problems.

I do agree that they are more reliable on average than VIA. However, I think that the VIA KT133A drivers that shipped with Windows XP are still quite good.
 


<< Intel has in fact historically released MANY versions of their chipset drivers to address a host of specific problems. >>

No, as a matter of fact, they do not.

NO chipset issues are addressed with the chipset inf drivers.

If you cared to examine the change log for these drivers, which you can see here, none of the changes are related to the chipsets themselves. The link shows the change log for the version 3.x drivers, but the same also applies to drivers at least as far back as version 2.3 (that's as far as I have seen). This covers a span of over 3 years.
 


<< funny how many people get pissed because via chipsets have drivers, ALi, SiS, Intel all have drivers, but VIA gets crapped on for having them >>


Intel releases new inf driver files to support new chipsets as they come out. IAA is an optional IDE storage driver. You dont have to use them. This is different from the VIA patches to work around their hardware problems.
 
VIA drivers are completely optional as well, they boost performance. One can argue that theirs are better since they do fix bugs, and don't say intel chipsets don't have bugs.. please.
 
Can you see any difference between the old and the new version?? I installed the old version when I built a P4B266, then removed it as I could see no difference. R
 
Andy,

I remember several revisions of the Intel chipset drivers that were specifically released to address problems that the Intel IDE controllers had running certain CD-RW devices (like the Plextor 12/10/32A).
 
Those were initial revisions of the Storage Drivers, not the Chipset Inf Drivers.
 
For anyone with Win98SE (I am guessing other OSes too), The IAA's cause my speed disk on the 2001 Utilities to not work and they have no plans on patching it. If your fortunate enough to have the 2002 version you will be fine because they already patched it for the IAA's.

BTW, does anyone know of a free or inexpensive suite of utilities like Norton's. I think requiring you to repurchase this type of software every year (actually less than one year old for me) is poor business, so I am looking for something I can use and also recommend to clients (most can barely plug their systems in so it can't be any level of complication). I can't recommend something that is on a yearly replacement schedule for my level of client. I maybe can see it for business, but I really like 2-3 year schedules more.

Oh and normal defrag isn't an option (I like being able to lock low use files (like graphic apps and even Office) to the slow part of the drive permanently and unless I am missing something defrag don't let you do that)..........😀
 
Do you have to uninstall the older version of the IAA before you install the newer version? It doesn't say in the readme or in the installation instructions on Intel's site.
 
I didn't do an uninstall, but I have seen from some people that if you install straight over the top, you cannot uninstall and go back to the Microsoft drivers.
 
I went ahead and uninstalled it after I timed my bootup and ran HDTach. Rebooted, installed new version, rebooted and ran "benchmarks" again. Boot time exctly the same, HDtach too close to call with new IAA.
 
I do not recommend these at all if u have windows xp(ya ya i know why listen to me).

I did few tests. Winbench 99 to be one of them and SISOFT SANDRA (yes i know crappy but only took few mins)

The drivers are faster that comes with windows XP according to these tests. Also with the IAA i got some crashes. So im uninstalling right now.

If your system is running fine and u think about installing these to get a performance increase with your HDs DONT!
 


<< If your system is running fine and u think about installing these to get a performance increase with your HDs DONT! >>



They seem to be a little faster on my rig. I ran HDTach 2.61 and took the best of (3) runs.

80GB 120GXP screenshot

As with anything, YMMV.
 
The Intel® Application Accelerator supports the following Intel® chipsets:

Intel® 810 Chipset
Intel® 810E Chipset
Intel® 810E2 Chipset
Intel® 815 Chipset
Intel® 815E Chipset
Intel® 815EP Chipset
Intel® 815P Chipset
Intel® 820 Chipset
Intel® 820E Chipset
Intel® 830M Chipset
Intel® 830MP Chipset
Intel® 830MG Chipset
Intel® 840 Chipset
Intel® 845MP Chipset
Intel® 845 Chipset
Intel® 850 Chipset
Intel® 860 Chipset

Note: The Intel Application Accelerator is not compatible with the Intel® 815EM chipset, the Intel® 440 chipset family, or any earlier Intel chipsets.
 
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