Hey guys,
Reader Mike pointed my attention to a post on Hardware Canucks which describes a problem with certain AMD Phenom processors. It seems that a patch from AMD is bringing down processor performance significantly and is especially noticeable when playing games. Says Hardware Canucks:
“Fast forward a couple weeks, AMD users applying the patch have noticed severe slow downs in their systems. For a patch that was intended to improve performance – this sure isn’t doing it, in fact it has almost made it worse.”
The post goes on to detail a procedure to disable the fix and bring performance back to what it should be. Please follow this link to find the fix as detailed by the author.
Basically you need to download the following programs:
TLB_ver_1.05.rar (hosted by Original Website)
TLB_ver_1.05.rar (mirror by theFakeGeek)
THE METHOD:
- Extract CrystalCPUID to a folder.
- Extract the TLB program to the same folder as CrystalCPUID.
- Launch the TLB_disable.exe program in Administrator mode.
- Set the TLB_disable.exe program to run from start up. You can do this by either creating a shortcut in the Start up folder or through Task Scheduler.