I'd strongly recommend against it unless you have a good reason to use it (such as additional features it offers, as opposed to aledged performance improvements). This is based on my personal experience of it 1)not improving performance on most systems, and 2) corrupting the drive on one system.

Talmy, thanks for your input. I've decided against it, based on you, previous postings on this board (which I shoulda checked before I posted), and a Chris Pirillo column on the Smart Computing mag site (also which I shoulda checked before.) Still, it's bizarre to me that so many things developed by legitimate companies can't be trusted to operate as claimed by said companies. We need a computer industry 'first, do no harm...' pledge.

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@123zaz wrote:
Anybody have any info about the Intel Application Accelator available from Intel? I'm not a gamer, so don't know if it would really show much of an improvement for me. Got a Dim 4300 w/Pentium 4, 1.6 GHz, XP Home. Thanks in advance. http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/

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Hi,

It works well in both my old XPS D system, and my newer GigaByte system.
It raised my hard drive benchmarks quite a bit in both systems.

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Last time I looked the Application Accelerator was the only one available from Intel as it replaced their older chip set drivers.  I have it loaded in two 8100s and one 4100 with no problems.  In all cases it increased the performance slightly.

Don

Also running the IAA here on a D8200 (850e chipset) without problems.  I have measured a performance increase, but I believe that users shouldn't expect a "day/night" difference.  Processor performance enhancement will be most notable only on the most demanding applications.  Email, web browsing and other 'basic' uses should not be used for benchmarking any before/after tests.

That said, there are posts within these forums from users who claim that the IAA has caused them trouble.

GMan

I would recommend it.  I have used it for a while now and I see a large boot in preformance after installing it. 

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I tried it on my new Dimension 4550 and it locked up WindowsXP so that it would get stuck on the Windows logo when it tried to restart to complete the install.   When I was finally able to reboot using a previous Restore version, I uninstalled it and my machine again works fine.  The softeware had been installed and had changed my driver.  I was just wondering what experinces others were having.  Looks like it's been mixed reading these postings.

Are there any other Dimension 4550 users that have tried this and had success?

 

I don't know if this had anything to do with the Intel Application Accelerator, but I installed it for the first time(Jan.17) off of my Dell resource CD. There seemed to be no problems, but no boost in performance that was noticeable to me.
2 or 3 days ago, I noticed my printer was gone!!! It had disappeared from my computer. I tried re-installing the software, but an error occurred.(The RPC server was unavailable)
After several attempts, I decided to do a SFC scan(I had to keep restarting it several times, said to insert Windows XP cd, which was already in the CD ROM)That didn't work, so I did a Windows Repair. THEN I kept getting an error message on every startup:(You have no paging file......) I tried to set the paging file, but it would still show 0mb (yes, I clicked apply)on every startup. So I decided to just go ahead and do a Clean install of Windows XP. I DID NOT reinstall IAA. Everything is working fine now.
It may not have been IAA, it's still a mystery to me.

I have seen Intel Application Accelerator installed on several systems.  I have formatted my hard drive several times, putting Intel Application Accelerator back on each time and seeing a big jump in preformance.  Yes, there are mixed experiences, but some is user error.