Hyper Threading, Enabled or Disabled?
30 July 2003, 07:43 AM
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I know their's a fair few these chips knocking around.
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In the Asus i found it very unstable and occasional crash, not botherd to try in the MSI.
Whats everyone else done?
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In the Asus i found it very unstable and occasional crash, not botherd to try in the MSI.
Whats everyone else done?
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30 July 2003, 02:04 PM
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Si, you never told me you weren't using HT. OMG lol, Hyperthreading is lovely when I am gaming, needing to alt+tab out etc and still get to my other stuff very quickly.
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Yup
Works fine on my Asus P4C800 Deluxe with a 3ghz 800mb FSB P4HT - must be the build
- you can tell the diffrence if you have a lot of apps open and are doing intensive stuff.... Recomend em every time.
Actually the HT is a little weird. Installing some dual Xeon 2U servers today, they have come with HT enabled CPU's and Win2K Server seems to work fine still. It in fact now thinks they are 4CPU devices....
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Works fine on my Asus P4C800 Deluxe with a 3ghz 800mb FSB P4HT - must be the build
- you can tell the diffrence if you have a lot of apps open and are doing intensive stuff.... Recomend em every time.Actually the HT is a little weird. Installing some dual Xeon 2U servers today, they have come with HT enabled CPU's and Win2K Server seems to work fine still. It in fact now thinks they are 4CPU devices....
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Weird as I thought it was only XP SP1 that could take advantage of this. But I've heard the same from others.
From testing I've found that if the machine is going to do one task only (big number crunching jobs), then not to bother with HT as the overhead of spliting the job to run the two threads slows the overall progress down by a few percent.
However, if you are doing multi-tasks, i.e desktop setup or gaming/internet machine, then HT works really well.
Got a twin Xeon under my desk and task manager shows 4 processors
Even better I can switch between work stuff and a game of MOHAA without trouble.
Cheers
Ian
From testing I've found that if the machine is going to do one task only (big number crunching jobs), then not to bother with HT as the overhead of spliting the job to run the two threads slows the overall progress down by a few percent.
However, if you are doing multi-tasks, i.e desktop setup or gaming/internet machine, then HT works really well.
Got a twin Xeon under my desk and task manager shows 4 processors
Even better I can switch between work stuff and a game of MOHAA without trouble. Cheers
Ian
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