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Offline RTHolmes

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Hyperthreading
« on: August 16, 2010, 05:33:38 AM »
sooo ... using a HP z200 at the moment, has a Core i5-650 @3.2GHz, running 32bit XP Pro. runs AH great (although the 320W PSU is struggling a bit with my 9800GT :uhoh)

just noticed that hyperthreading is disabled, although I can enable it in BIOS. Is there any advantage enabling it under XP for general use? Is there any tradeoff or performance hit for non-multithreaded apps if I enable it?

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Re: Hyperthreading
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2010, 06:20:07 AM »
It really depends on the applications you run.  It could improve performance, it may not.  It will not hurt performance.  It will cause more power to be used though.
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Re: Hyperthreading
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2010, 06:36:36 AM »
ok thanks, I'll leave it for the moment as power is in short supply :)
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