[SiMoNsAyS]

Does Service Pack 2 slow you down?

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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.

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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.

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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.

This post has been edited by SiMoNsAyS: 18 October 2004 - 10:00 AM

[Feigned]

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]

Feigned said:

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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

[sonu27]

There was a test and it showed that it did.

[prathapml]

For me, SP2 has been same as SP1 has always been.

Opinion: Don't use XP without it.

[gamehead200]

No, it sped up my PC...

[Skitso]

I have the feeling it slows down my pc.....although i didn't really test this.

[Tokugawapants]

0.5% faster for SP1? Wow that's a huge difference (SP2 made no difference in speed for me)

[XtremeMaC]

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]

had no effect on my computer, so i guess it didnt slow it down

[MCT]

works fine here, didnt notice any speed difference

[Vel Straty]

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]

HECK NO IT DOESNT SLOW ME DOWN!! I currently have the following items:
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe Mobo
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz o/c to 3.3GHz
1GB of RAM
120 Western Digital Hard Drive
Lite-On DVD Drive
Lite-On CD/DVD Burner
Thermaltake 480W Silent Purepower Power Supply

The wierd thing is that I'm only in high school....
im a geek.

[XtremeMaC]

@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]

an XP Home SP2 might slow down a bit, I dunno. All I do know is:
XP Home SP2 nLited sure isn't slow.

[sonu27]

The sucurity centre service is not need so I disabled it.

[Carmon]

Well i though about this idea so i had go to see if it right i had 2 pcs all the same specs each other (i.e 2ghz etc) and both formatted and reinstalled Windows XP on both and updated one wiv SP1 and the other wiv SP1 and SP2 and came out after few tests that SP2 was slower that SP1 by 1 secound personally probly the reason is that the SP2 is more Information on the XP O.S were SP1 anit but personally 1secound wait anit that Nasty

[angadsingh007]

This is seriously a very big rumour..... not true at all... dont miss on updating to sp2 if u've been thinking to... its gr8

[Rekenaar]

No noticable change on my PC.

[Glowy]

Didn't test it, but no noticable slowdowns here, maybe because I don't use the security center (tweaked out)