Until about 4 months ago, I have always worked with windows XP on a 900 MHz pIII and win2000 on a 600 MHz AMD Duron, and I always admired the shear strength, compatability and security of those platforms, even on those older computers. But, if I run multiple applications, even lighter ones, I frequently get to wait 20 seconds to alt-tab successfully to the other program (e.g. working in excel, tabbing to winamp). Shear processing power doesn't help against this problem, as I have a friend with an overclocked 2.4 GHz p4 (to 3.1 GHz) who has the same problem, but of course only with a bit heavier applications and such.
Now, as I said, since 4 months, my mother bought a 3.06 P4 w/hyperthreading (HT), and I never have that problem anymore. Even when I'm running 3ds max, winamp, terragen (rendering), vegas AND micrografx picture publisher next to each other, I always get direct response, no exceptions. Hyperthreading seriously improves respons times on my computer by a great deal. I can 'measure' this because the laptop is a laptop, and laptops can run on batteries. However, if it runs on it's battery, the computer turns off some bells and whistles to reduce power dissipation, and for instance turns the processor on 'celeron mode', reducing clock frequency (slightly, 3066->2950 MHz), and turning off HT. That makes a VERY VERY big difference in response.
So, does anyone have similar experiences with this great HT technology, or bad experiences, or whatever to say about this topic?
HT seriously is a very cool technology
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Well HT is nice but its only simulated dual chips. I myself prefer dual cpus as in my dual opteron rig hehe. What I am really waiting for are nexy years dual core 939 pin opterons that should be backwards compatible with all opteron motherboards therefore I should be able to upgrade to quad processing by next year (at a high premium though). The only thing I would see as cooler would be a dual core xeon chip with hyperthreading so I can run 2 of those on a mobo for a total of 4 real procs and 4 virtual procs (oh the shear thought of the processing power).
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Well the main thing thats exciting about 64bit computing now is that more consumer based software will start supporting it. 64bits advantage is the use of more memory which is good for apps like video editing. Anyhow I picked my opterons not only because of there 64 bit architechture but also because of its future upgradability and its raw processing power compared to more expensive Xeon based systems.
The difference is marketability, Itanium is too slow to market, windows was too slow to develop 64 bit components, and the price of the Intel made it suitable for server and hi end workstation uses, not your basic or even mid range desktop. AMD-64 puts 64 bit computing into a price friendly place.xbreaka420 wrote:intel had a 64 bit proc back in 1998, called the itanium theres also 128 bit procs out there so why is everyone like omg amd 64 bits,
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I guess you've got both years of spare time and millions of spare dollars?Nightingale_zero wrote:Well HT is nice but its only simulated dual chips. I myself prefer dual cpus as in my dual opteron rig hehe. What I am really waiting for are nexy years dual core 939 pin opterons that should be backwards compatible with all opteron motherboards therefore I should be able to upgrade to quad processing by next year (at a high premium though). The only thing I would see as cooler would be a dual core xeon chip with hyperthreading so I can run 2 of those on a mobo for a total of 4 real procs and 4 virtual procs (oh the shear thought of the processing power).
omfg, that's just mega! And I should be happy with my humble 3.06 GHz HT??
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