Performance of a .net 3.5 Sp1 Winform application on Windows 7

Posted: Feb/15/2010 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:133 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

Hello,

I recently purchased a high performance, Windows 7, 64 bit based PC for improving the performance of my intensive .net application

trouble is my old laptop running XP with 1/2 gig of memory is outperforming it in both video refresh rates and number crunching

The disk performance on my new machine is far better though

The video refresh issue I think I have solved and it relates to the new nVidia card drivers not rendering the lines on a DataGridView during scrolling very well.

I have added the option to hide/unhide the lines in the cells and the performance picks up a lot

Now, when I load and process the large amount of data, the laptop dedicates a significant amount of CPU time to the number crunching, whereas my "Tower of Power" is mostly idle.

I have no doubt if I rewrote the app to crunch all this data on multiple threads I would get the performance boost

Is there anyway to avoid that? can I get my machine to dedicate more of its idle CPU time to getting this job done quicker?

TIA

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