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To: Elmer who wrote (77006)10/26/1999 12:37:00 AM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1577883
 
I notice that, when reporting benchmarks, AMD uses a special patch for WinNT4.0 SP5. It's called "Write Combining Patch Q231949.patch". Is this something that is AMD specific? Do you know anything about it?

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To: Elmer who wrote (77006)10/26/1999 1:43:00 AM
From: Steve Porter  Respond to of 1577883
 
Elmer,

The patch, (Write combing) for Windows NT Sp5 is merely a patch which turns on write combining in the Athlon. Athlon normally start with write combining (to my knowledge) turned off at boot to be overly conservative. This flag merely toggles a bit in the CPU to turn on write combining.

Steve


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