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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: RTHolmes on August 16, 2010, 05:33:38 AM

Title: Hyperthreading
Post by: RTHolmes 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?

 :headscratch:

Title: Re: Hyperthreading
Post by: Skuzzy 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.

Title: Re: Hyperthreading
Post by: RTHolmes on August 16, 2010, 06:36:36 AM

ok thanks, I'll leave it for the moment as power is in short supply :)