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hyper threading technology not compatible with windows2k?

#1 NitRoX

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 02:45 AM

#2 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 05:40 AM

why would it suck - hyper threading came out long after win2k - maybe if they released a patch

it does work under 2k as far as i know.......

#3 DosFreak

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 07:26 AM

It works, just doesn't take full advantage of hyper-threading. That's M$ for ya. With *nix just load the latest kernel. With NT well....you know the drill. Buy the latest ver.

#4 sapiens74

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 10:55 AM

its up to Intel to supoort Windows 2000
with thier technology

Not Microsoft

The first Xeons were HT and only Window2000 existed

So Don't believe the hype

SHould work fine

#5 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 07 January 2004 - 06:03 PM

H/t Explored.

http://www.2cpu.com/articles/ht_explored/index.html

#6 Sampson

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Posted 08 January 2004 - 03:44 PM

HT does work with W2k. It does not work as elegantly as XP. The basic difference, as I understand it, is that XP can stop the processes of one thread when there is a competition for resources (especially in the internal cache) between the two threads being processed simultaneously. W2k just lets them continue to compete, which slows down both threads.