SiMoNsAyS Posted October 18, 2004 Posted October 18, 2004 (edited) Does Service Pack 2 slow you down? Which wins?Service Pack 1 tallied 63 "wins" out of a total of 108 scores. Service Pack 2 took only 42 possibilities with the rest nullified by matching scores. It can be said that, on average, Windows XP Professional with only Service Pack 1 installed is faster 2/3 of the time. The table below is the sum of all resolutions for each category.The test PC equipped with Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 was an average of 0.5% faster than the same hardware with Service Pack 2 installed. The percentage difference between faster and slower is insignificantly small. Less than 2 or 3 percent in some benchmarks could be dismissed by most but when gamers are looking to squeeze every extra frame out of their machines...it may count.Source I only can find one problem on that review, they forgot to say that with SP1 you didn't have that better firewall, popup blocker and everytime you connect to Internet the Blaster virus will reboot your system I thought on post this on technology news or general discussion section, but I find more interesting read your opinions. Edited October 18, 2004 by SiMoNsAyS
Feigned Posted October 18, 2004 Posted October 18, 2004 The margin for error has to be greater than the 0.5% difference in performance they tallied up...so I'd call their theory bunk.As for myself...SP2 doesn't hurt at all. If you negate the new "features" existence by disabling services and the like...then there's no loss.
redder Posted October 22, 2004 Posted October 22, 2004 Feigned said:As for myself...SP2 doesn't hurt at all. If you negate the new "features" existence by disabling services and the like...then there's no loss.The only thing SP2 brings that is good, in my opinion, are all of those hotfixes and updates, as for those "features"... well, i take everything off with nlite, so i dont know the diference at all
prathapml Posted November 24, 2004 Posted November 24, 2004 For me, SP2 has been same as SP1 has always been.Opinion: Don't use XP without it.
Skitso Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 I have the feeling it slows down my pc.....although i didn't really test this.
Tokugawapants Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 0.5% faster for SP1? Wow that's a huge difference (SP2 made no difference in speed for me)
XtremeMaC Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 well i haven't seen anything noticable, it just made my setup faster and easier after that i returned all my settings back to sp1 settings so firewall off, sec center off etc..) so it kindda stole my precious time bc i had to close all those stuff but after all nlite'd sp2 is faster
Doggie Posted November 28, 2004 Posted November 28, 2004 had no effect on my computer, so i guess it didnt slow it down
MCT Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 works fine here, didnt notice any speed difference
Vel Straty Posted November 29, 2004 Posted November 29, 2004 haven't seen any difference in speed.Its just that people have to spend their time to configure their systems to the way they like.
craticy Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 HECK NO IT DOESNT SLOW ME DOWN!! I currently have the following items:Asus P4C800-E Deluxe MoboIntel Pentium 4 3.0GHz o/c to 3.3GHz1GB of RAM120 Western Digital Hard DriveLite-On DVD DriveLite-On CD/DVD BurnerThermaltake 480W Silent Purepower Power SupplyThe wierd thing is that I'm only in high school....im a geek.
XtremeMaC Posted December 3, 2004 Posted December 3, 2004 @craticy hey if u're thinking u're the only one or u're special or something i'm sorry but u're not there are lots of geeks that are in high school, sorry pal! ppl hack, crack, design webpages, program complex codes + lots of other things at your age.not flaming u, just saying u're not unicorn
Jeremy Posted January 23, 2005 Posted January 23, 2005 an XP Home SP2 might slow down a bit, I dunno. All I do know is:XP Home SP2 nLited sure isn't slow.
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