1. Do you need to upgrade SP2? If the operating system you are using is Windows XP, the cost is removed. The answer to whether SP2 should be installed is absolutely certain, because the security performance brought by SP2 alone is enough to attract many users. In addition, SP2 has added the following new features based on the previous SP1: a. Enhanced firewall function b. Support local Bluetooth protocol c. Enhanced wireless network function More features of Windows XP SP2 Please go to the official website of Microsoft. However, there are still many users who are confused about whether they should download and install SP2. One of the important issues they care about is: Can you really improve the performance of the system after installing SP2? Because the original system is already "bloated", adding more files after installing SP2 will make the whole system bigger. In view of this, our assessment today will answer the user's concerns. As we all know, SYSMark04 developed by Bapco is an authoritative system for testing the performance of workstations based on Windows operating systems. SYSMark04 tests the performance of all aspects of the system by running the actual application. In the following tests, we will briefly introduce the details of each test. WebMark 04 is a test system for testing the system's ability to browse web pages. In addition to the above tests, we will also run some test system performance system to see how SP2 can help the game performance. For comparison, we installed two operating systems, one with DirectX 9.0b installed and the SP1 patch installed; the other with DirectX 9.0c and SP2 patches. Keep looking down and you'll see the latest DirectX and the latest SP2 patches. 2, test platform
In this test, we use a high-end machine as the system test platform; the results of the test on this platform can be used as a reference for the low-end configuration platform. All hardware on the test platform is loaded with the latest drivers and uses integrated components from the motherboard, such as network cards, sound cards, and more. Because the Windows XP operating system does not provide firewall function by default, here we added the firewall function when installing. In this way, we can see in the later tests how different firewall versions affect the test scores. The hardware configuration of the test platform is shown in the following table: Processor Intel Pentium 4 560 (Prescott 3.6 GHz) Motherboard ABIT AA8 (Intel 925X chipset) NIC motherboard integrated Realtek 8110S PCI Gigabit Ethernet card sound card motherboard integrated Realtek ALC880 8-channel graphics card Radeon X600 XT PCI-E Memory 1GB Corsair XMS2 Pro DDRII (4-4-4-12) Next, let's take a look at the results of each test! 3, SYSMark 04 test results
3.1 Internet Content Creation test results First, let's take a look at the SYSMark04 Internet Content Creation test, the test software running in this test is shown in the following table: Adobe After Effects 5.5 Adobe Photoshop 7.01 Adobe Premiere 6.5 Discreet 3Ds Max 5.1 Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Macromedia Flash MX Microsoft Windows Media Encoder 9 SerIEs Network Associates McAfee VirusScan 7.0 WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 If you often use some of the software on the table, you can look at the test below. The result! Because the above application software runs in a different way, SYSMark has different test results according to the different test schemes below. For example, the first test result we saw was the 3D Creation test scenario. The test process was as follows: First, convert a 3D model into a bitmap file using 3Ds Max 5.1, and run Dreamweaver MX during the conversion process. The web page, then converts a 3D animation into a vector format file. The test results of 3D Creation are shown below: As can be seen from the above figure, the operating system with the SP2 patch has a slightly higher score. Will the advantages of SP2 continue to be maintained? 2D Creation test plan: First run Premiere 6.5 to combine several movie clips and several sound files into one movie file and export the file; in the process of generating new movie file, open a picture file with Photoshop 7.01, modify and save the file. After the movie file is successful everywhere, use After Effect 5.5 to edit and generate special effects. The results of the 2D Creation test are as follows: In the 2D Creation test, the SP2 score exceeded SP1 again. In addition, we can see that the difference between the two is slightly increased, but the advantage is not obvious. Is it only a little bit of improvement that SP2 brings? Don't jump straight to the conclusion, and continue to look down patiently... Web Publication Test Solution: First use WinZip 8.1 to decompress a compressed file, and at the same time, use Flash MX to open a 3D vector file. , import other image files into the file, and optimize the animation effect of the synthesized file. Then use Windows Media Encoder 9 serIEs to compress the movie files generated by the previous 2D Creation to generate a file format that can be played on the network. Finally, the file was imported into a web page made by Dreamweaver MX, and the entire system was scanned for viruses using VirusScan 7.0. The results of the Web Publications program test are as follows: In this test, SP1 and SP2 were tied. So far, we can see the overall performance level of SP2 in tests such as Photoshop, Dreamweaver and more. Let's take a look at whether the situation is still the same in the test of office software. 3.2 Office Productivity Test Results During the testing of Office Productivity, the application software used is shown in the following table: Adobe Acrobat 5.0.5 Microsoft Access 200 Microsoft Excel 2002 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Outlook 2002 Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Microsoft Word 2002 Network Associates McAfee VirusScan 7.0 ScanSoft Dragon Naturally Speaking 6 Preferred WinZip Computing WinZip 8.1 If the application software you usually use is mostly office software, then the most used one is Microsoft Office software. Be sure to pay attention to the following test results! See if these test scenarios match the situation you actually use? Communication test plan: First, use Outlook 2002 to receive an email. The content of the email includes a zip-format attachment, update the system time during the process of receiving the email, and start VirusScan 7.0 to scan the email. Then use Internet Explorer 6.0 to browse the company's website, and finally use IE to view some web pages and some documents received by the above mail. The test results are as follows: In this test, SP1 exceeded SP2 for the first time and opened up a lot of distance. This is definitely related to the function of the firewall, because in this test, many of the tests are online, such as receiving, viewing mail and so on. Create a document test scenario: first edit a document with Word 2002, then use Dragon Naturallyspeeking 6 to transcribe an audio file into a document. After the document fills up the relevant content, use Acrobat 5.O.5 to convert to PDF and encrypt the document. Finally, use PowerPoint 2002 to create a marketing report and add relevant content to the slide. The test results are shown in the following figure: The test scores of the two are very close, and the SP2 leads a little. Data analysis test plan: First open a database with Access 2002, and perform some query operations; then use WinZip 8.1 to compress some documents; then save the results of the database query to the Excel 2002 table and generate related charts. The test results are shown below: Not kidding? If you usually deal with the above data analysis, then you can tell that SP1 is indeed faster than SP2. In general, in the Office Productivity test, SP1 is slightly faster than SP2. In addition to creating a document test (the results of the two are very similar, almost identical). In one of the tests, the gap between the two is very obvious, which may be related to the function of the firewall. I don't know how you think, but personally, I am more than happy to lose some performance in order to get stronger firewall functionality. Of course, if your working environment has been isolated from the external network through the router, and the router is configured correctly, then you can shield the operating system's firewall function. Let's take a look at the test scores in SP2's WebMark. 4, WebMark 04 test results
The test using WebMark 04 is more biased towards the actual work of the test - which involves some guides, manuals, help files, demos and so on. More importantly, the test scores of the client are not affected by other external factors (the effect of receiving external networks directly by using IE browsing web pages is relatively large). Similar to SYSMark, WebMark also tests the performance of web pages in different applications in several different scenarios. Let's take a look at how their test results are. 4.1 Information Processing Test Results Entry-Level Website: This site represents an entry-level web page that provides information about the company's news, organizational structure updates, and other web applications. The main workload of the website is: employees browsing the web. 1) First open a network client automatically, and display the latest information and messages from different network segments, different organizational units, stock price information, job demand status information, consumer demand information. 2) From the homepage, the user clicks on one of the small icons to enter the story page, where the user clicks on the link to browse the company-designed animated advertisement.