-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 04 March 2004 09:36 pm, BandiPat wrote:
On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:38 pm, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
Steven, If you are wanting better performance, actually doing two things at once, then go for a dual cpu motherboard. If you are just wanting speedups, then go for the Opteron/Athlon64 cpu. Hyperthreading was just another gimmick Intel tried to use for an already bad cpu, the Pentium IV.
Lee
AMD does hyperthreading as well. The difference is the AMD chip emulates three processors, whereas the Intel emulates two. I already have a Pentium chip with hyperthreading. It costs far more than the motherboard which can be had at less that $100 US. I just want to know if it is worth the hassle, and _risk_, of swapping it out. I'm interested in demonstrable metrics. I would more than likely go with a 64bit chip before I went to two processors. The inter-processor protocols, the physical parameters introduced by the finite propagation speed of electromagnetic impulses, and the need for software to support (external) SMP make it unattractive.
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