Re: Hyperthreading Technology

Bobby,

I just got a Dell XPS Pentium 4 3.8GHz with HT - I assume this is
Hyperthreading Technology. It also has Windows XP Home SP2 - they seem to
work well together<G>

Are you saying it may be faster with H/T disabled?
If so, how do I do that?
Any down side to disabling HT?

Thanks,

Bill




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"Harley" <Harley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I read this article the other day from PCWorld Mag dated 2002 (forgot
>month).
> Anyway the articl stated that HT Technology is not supported in Windows XP
> Home edition. Is this still true?
> --
> Roaddog

You are misunderstanding the article. Windows XP HE does not support more
than one processor. It does support HyperThreading, although you may want
to disable it. Hyperthreading only has benefit for those programs that are
written to take advantage of it, and the majority of the stuff out there is
not written to take advantage of hyperthreading. You may wish to conduct a
test...go a few days with H/T on and then a few days with H/T off and see
which is faster.

Bobby



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