Athlon Xp Confuse Customers

[adamp2p]

Originally posted by DWk@5 April 2004 - 08:43
Rofl.... better without HT than with it?

Lmao talk about confusion

That data was released by AMD; therefore it should not be taken seriously. It would be a much better idea to take a look at, say, benchmarks from Anandtech.

[aoyv73]

All the hype and B.S with numbers why sir its all done with smoke and mirrors just

to confuse you the whole speed thing is stupid a advert ploy

[lynx]

Hyperthreading is only of any use if you are using multi-threaded software or more than one processor intensive program.

With muti-processor systems the scheduler has to assign processes to a particular processor and that takes time and resources. The same is true of a hyperthreaded processor. So even with two processors you could never get double the workload. And if you are only using one piece of software the performance can drop below 100%, as shown in those benchmarks.