Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 23:05:30 03/04/03
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On March 04, 2003 at 21:57:58, Nolan Denson wrote: >There are no draw backs when looking to get a computer that using >Hyper-Threading. If you do not like the feature you can just simply turn it off. >There are many system on the market that claims to be Hyper Threading enabled. >Intel has a utility program that checks for Hyper Threading ... > >1. You must have the proper CPU's. >2. You must have the proper motherboard. >3. You bios must support it. >4. Your Operating system must support it. > >Once these things are met your system will indicate that Hyper Threading is >enable before booting into the Operating System. > >It is not an indication that you will see when the computer is turned on and the >Bios is posting. > >Soon all of Intel processcor's will have Hyper Threading. So if what you are >using your processor slows down with Hyper Threading, just simply turn it off >via the Bios. How convenient. Have to reboot 20 times per day to turn it on/off just so your applications run optimally. I'll be sticking with the cooler running, faster, and cheaper AMD chips. :) >On March 04, 2003 at 17:39:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On March 04, 2003 at 16:32:33, Jay-R Delacruz wrote: >> >>>Do the deep versions of Fritz, Junior and Shredder support hyper-thread? Can >>>someone please tell me before upgrading my PC to try the deep versions? >> >>I just read email from Frans Morsch. DeepFritz7 gets 5-10% speedup by >>hyperthreading. >> >>Shredder gets more speedup in nodes a second than that, but it gets no speedup >>from it as it gets SMP already a far smaller speedup (1.5 or so), so it is >>smarter to turn SMT/HT off for it. perhaps shredder8 will fix this. >> >>For diep it speeds me up about 11% in NPS but i cannot garantuee that at a 4 >>processor it will give a positive speedup. >> >>When running 2 processes at a P4 at 3.06ghz it will give for sure some speedup >>because it goes from 100k nps to 120k nps. Nearly 20% speedup it gets with it >>(18.6 or something) which gives a positive speedup also in depth. >> >>For deepjunior we know that it already works bad at 8 processor Xeon 1.6Ghz >>versus 4 processor Xeon 1.9Ghz, so i *assume* for now that SMT/HT will not give >>it much benefit for it at all, but perhaps Amir or Shay wants to give a >>statement regarding this themselves. >> >>We talk of course about the SMT/HT from Xeon processors up to 2.8Ghz now for >>those which have it enabled. For the P4 3.06Ghz and also Xeons of that and above >>things are a different matter. >> >>Best regards, >>Vincent
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