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Mr Pink57

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From: a van down by the river

Registered: 2009-05-30

Posts: 91

Pentium M Optimized Kernel

I have a Laptop with Arch on it that is using the generic kernel right now.  I have never done a custom kernel before and was wondering if it's really worth it?  My CPUFreq works fine and so does my undervolt, will I see much of a speed increase?

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bangkok_manouel

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From: indicates a starting point

Registered: 2005-02-07

Posts: 1,556

Re: Pentium M Optimized Kernel

no. but it's fun anyway

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Pentium M Optimized Kernel

Perhaps you'd like to try out the [Zen kernel].

Last edited by Wintervenom (2010-01-28 17:11:12)

ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: Pentium M Optimized Kernel

when i first got my phenom II x4, i saw a huge difference in multithreaded performance by building a custom zen kernel, single threaded performance was still the same. i don't see the same difference anymore though with newer kernels, i still use the zen kernel though, my config is already made, so its not hard to update it, and it only takes 3 minutes to build on this monster, lol.

give it a try, as mentioned, its fun anyway

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