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You cannot convert a Server SKU to a real Desktop SKU. For that, simply install Windows 7 Professional.
What you can do, is trick installers:
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1327Boot optimisation only applies to physical disks where sectors closer to the spindle have lower access times. You should NEVER perform any sort of defragmentation / data reordering on an SSD! It’s all internally managed by the SSD firmware, do not attempt to outsmart it, you will only shorten your SSD’s lifetime.
I tried this on 2008R2 Std and got it to work fine, was curious to see the high-res graphics in Cave Story Wii but was disappointed by slow emulation and bad sound (the latter is just how the game was shipped).
EDIT: Just tried latest SVN and Cave Story is now working beautifully at 60fps. 🙂
Does this also allow you to use System Restore from the Startup Repair Preinstallation Environment?
@FireStorm wrote:
and like someone else said, I/O performance on Hyper-V is SHIT…
I don’t even get why it would be so bad. I even have Intel VT-d direct I/O or whatever the hell that is.
@reaperx7 wrote:
Also, I know this for a fact. If you have a hardware device installed with an unsigned driver installed, 2008 R2 will not rollback or uninstall the driver.
Alternatively, if you’re having problems with unsigned drivers, install the Bluetooth stack for R2 which comes with a hack that removes the testsigning watermark, and self-sign the driver using the Windows SDK. I’ve recently done this for a prerelease bugfixed VMware driver that wouldn’t run because it was unsigned (and testsigning mode still blocks unsigned drivers, but it does allow self-signed drivers).
I have to say I was very disappointed with Hyper-V. Compared to the other hypervisor-based virtualisation solutions out there, Hyper-V has the ability to have the edge because it’s host-based (with a solid driver base) instead of bare-metal, but I was thoroughly disappointed by guest performance. Purely from a CPU standpoint it’s probably faster, but virtual disk I/O felt extremely slow to me, and only allowing basic VGA graphics doesn’t exactly help guest OS responsiveness either. The virtual network literally broke host network connectivity for me completely; my guess is it didn’t play nice with Intel ANS or something (I use link aggregation).
After removing the Hyper-V role and recovering from the nightmare, I installed VMWare Workstation 7.1 and performance is just stellar– I don’t notice any slowdown from the lack of a kernel-mode hypervisor at all. The paravirtualised 3D graphics drivers are blazingly fast and everything simply works.
@m.oreilly wrote:
weird, because that didn’t work for me…i had to sell the 5850, go back to nvidia to get 1920×1080 going, as the ccc would never allow changing over/under scan/any adjustments within ccc. hey, did it work? i could get the drivers going without issue, but not the ccc to fully work
Depends what you mean with “ccc to fully work”. I can’t access any underscan settings, but I use PC monitors driven via DVI that don’t perform overscan, so everything works as expected. I’d have to connect a TV via HDMI to confirm that underscan is disabled completely and not just disabled if you have a monitor connected that doesn’t perform any overscan to begin with.
Also, this may not apply to you, but most TVs allow you to disable overscan (this is called “1:1 Pixel” in LG TVs and “Screen Fit” in Samsungs) which would solve the issue completely (and result in dramatically improved picture quality).
@halladayrules wrote:
I installed NOD32 Antivirus, that goes fine as well. I reboot and then blue screen. LOL incredible.
That’s why I go bareback when it comes to antivirus solutions. The last antivirus software I actively used was TBAV back in ’98 :mrgreen:.
@halladayrules wrote:
Well the up time actually but its basically the same thing. If you want to count the time it takes for my BIOS to load every then the total boot time is around 45 seconds. Literally my BIOS is insanely slow even with quad core, so i didn’t put it into equation. I was just showing the results of my boot test from the time the operating system loads (aka Up Time).
Ooh, right! I never knew that. Up to now, if I wanted to know my uptime I ran systeminfo in a command prompt 😆
If you think 45 seconds of POST is slow, never buy a server motherboard. I haven’t clocked it, but with BMC (IPMI module) init time and SAS RAID card POST time, it’s got to be over a minute. Windows only takes like 15 seconds though.
@halladayrules wrote:
Looks like a nice alternative to ReadyBoost. Results will vary machine to machine though. Not everyone has 16 logical CPU cores, a 15,000 RPM SCSI, and 16GB of registered DDR3 memory 😆
I boot from the Intel SSD RAID array though, not from the Cheetah disk 😉
@halladayrules wrote:
Here’s the results of my boot time using the eBoostr service. Not bad.
How does that screenshot show the boot time?
If you want a faster boot time (and more responsive system), install eBoostr 4.0 and give it 1 or 2GB RAM cache (not SSD/Flash card but system RAM). When the cache is built up properly it’ll make login take approx. 1-2 seconds. I can’t even read any of the other text that flashes by, I just see “Preparing your desktop” for a second.
Close CCC, go to Device Manager, select your graphics card device, right click, uninstall. Then hit the “Search for new devices” button and it should load up the right driver.
Apparently this is a 2008 R2 quirk.
29th July 2010 at 23:14 in reply to: CPU Optimization for using R2 as workstation(from Windows 7) #50139Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for. For the past weeks I’ve been switching between the High Performance plan when I’m at my computer and the Power Saving plan when I go away for longer than 10 minutes, because with the Balanced plan Intel Turbo Boost wasn’t working. I’ve installed the registry entries now though, and Balanced correctly switches between 1.6GHz when I’m doing nothing and 2.9GHz (for multi threaded apps) or 3.0GHz (for single threaded apps) respectively, when I’m doing stuff (baseline freq is 2.6GHz for my Xeons). Awesome!
Only 1 socket support? Surely anyone who is serious about building a workstation will go for dual socket, right? Right?
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