angst 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 Hi all, I just upgraded the cpu's on my Asus A7M266-D motherboard from Athlon MP 2200's to MP 2600's and was wondering if there was anything I needed to do for the system software wise, ie reinstall the kernel or anything like that. Mandriva 2008.1 I wasn't expecting any really noticeable performance improvements and running HardInfo seems to confirm that. In fact in some of the benchmarks I seem to have lost a little ground and others slightly improved. Maybe normal variation. Maybe not. Anyway, one of the reasons I am asking is because Firefox has started randomly freezing up on me when loading web pages. Had it happen here and on the AVS (Audio/Video Science) forum. So far I have only seen this in Firefox. I played WoW for several hours last night and had no problems. Thanks, Sean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
medo3891 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 AFAIK you need to do nothing, the kernel will detect the new processor automatically. How much RAM do you have and which kernel do you have installed, desktop586, desktop, laptop or server? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
angst 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 2 Gb RAM and kernel-desktop-2.6.24.5-1mnb to get past the 880 MB memory problem. uname -a: Linux localhost 2.6.24.5-desktop-1mnb #1 SMP Tue May 27 12:42:16 EDT 2008 i686 AMD Athlon XP GNU/Linux Just had another Firefox freeze where I couldn't bring a tab to the front. Had to close the active tab to get back here to continue writing. This time Firefox didn't completely freeze up on me. Guess I could remove/reinstall FF and see if that fixes it. Maybe its just coincidental that it broke after upgrading cpu's? Sean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianw1974 11 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 You shouldn't need to reinstall Firefox, perhaps it's just your Firefox profile that is screwed. You can easily do this by: cd /home/username mv .mozilla .mozilla.old then run Firefox again to create a new profile. Replace username with your user that is experiencing the problem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
angst 0 Report post Posted June 10, 2008 (edited) Firefox seems to have cleared itself up for now. Not sure why. I booted into the latest desktop i586 kernel and ran benchmarks with HardInfo. Not much performance difference between any different run: Meta HardInfo Benchmarks report: CPU ZLib (Results in KiB/sec. Higher is better) Athlon MP 2200's (kernel-desktop) 14288.688 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop) 13054.783 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop-i586) 12900.530 PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) 2150.597408 Intel® Celeron® M processor 1.50GHz 8761.604561 CPU Fibonacci (Results in seconds. Lower is better) Athlon MP 2200's (kernel-desktop) 4.044 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop) 4.025 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop-i586) 4.020 Intel® Celeron® M processor 1.50GHz 8.1375674 PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) 58.07682 CPU MD5 (Results in MiB/sec. Higher is better) Athlon MP 2200's (kernel-desktop) 61.035 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop) 61.589 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop-i586) 61.685 PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) 7.115258 Intel® Celeron® M processor 1.50GHz 38.6607998 CPU SHA1 (Results in MiB/sec. Higher is better) Athlon MP 2200's (kernel-desktop) 61.420 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop) 63.197 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop-i586) 63.294 PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) 6.761451 Intel® Celeron® M processor 1.50GHz 49.6752776 CPU Blowfish (Results in seconds. Lower is better) Athlon MP 2200's (kernel-desktop) 16.671 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop) 16.476 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop-i586) 16.450 Intel® Celeron® M processor 1.50GHz 26.1876862 PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) 172.816713 FPU Raytracing (Results in seconds. Lower is better) Athlon MP 2200's (kernel-desktop) 24.711 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop) 24.624 Athlon MP 2600's (kernel-desktop-i586) 24.619 Intel® Celeron® M processor 1.50GHz 40.8816714 PowerPC 740/750 (280.00MHz) 161.312647 Not much difference, nor did I expect much, but a little something woulda been nice for my $60. :huh: I guess I fell for some old marketing hype. Thanks for the proffered help and suggestion. Sean Edit: More likely I just don't understand the magnitude of the changes. Edit: Major edit of codebox for readability. Sorry. Edited June 10, 2008 by angst Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
daniewicz 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 angst: Your motherboard houses 2 cpu's? I am using a A7M266 (single processor) motherboard with a XP2100 cpu. Old school! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adamw 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 You don't have to change anything in the system, nope. I suspect what's happening here is the MP-2600 is not actually much better than the MP-2200. Or, just possibly, you were using manual BIOS settings for the old CPU, so you're actually running your new CPU at the same speed as the old CPU. Go into the BIOS setup and check that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
angst 0 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 daniewicz, Yeah. 2 cpu server version of yours. Old school motherboard but it was a looker back in it's day! :D Just trying to milk a couple more years out of it without spending much money on it before I go for a complete system upgrade. adamw, I will look into the BIOS settings. Right now it is set to JumperFree and as far as I know should detect the cpu's on its own. Thanks all. Sean Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianw1974 11 Report post Posted June 11, 2008 You might need to go into the BIOS and choose Optimised Defaults as it'll help change everything for the new CPU. Although, this is based on the BIOS's I see in most home-build systems. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
