Hyper-threading A Amd Athlon 1500+

[gregpoogamus1]

Share your mind on it.

[ilw]

u can't

[gregpoogamus1]

Damn ok, what about a P4

[3rd gen noob]

why exactly do you want to be able to use hyper threading?

[Xanex]

Hyper Threading is a cheats way to speed up programs by exploiting a flaw in most OS's where the CPU fools the OS into thinking that there are 2 CPUS.

The Hyper-Threading or Hyper-Transport is part of the CPU construction and can't be modified in any way since its internal.

Xan

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by Xanex@7 September 2003 - 17:30
Hyper Threading is a cheats way to speed up programs by exploiting a flaw in most OS's where the CPU fools the OS into thinking that there are 2 CPUS.

sorry, i wasn't asking what hyper-threading was. i've done a bit of reading about it before

i was asking because there aren't a lot of programs currently available that either support or gain real performance benefits from hyper threading technology

[gregpoogamus1]

I have no real reason, I just would like to try it. Im curious about it.

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by gregpoogamus1@7 September 2003 - 20:07
I have no real reason, I just would like to try it. Im curious about it.

well you can't

[gregpoogamus1]

Well I know I cant with my AMD, but I think I can with my P4

[Lamsey]

You cannot enable hyperthreading unless you use a CPU which has hyperthreading capabilites hardwired into the chip, like the P4 3.06GHz HT.