Comments on: Enabling Hyperthreading in Windows XP

By: core i7; worth waiting for? - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

core i7; worth waiting for? - Page 2 - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:31:49 +0000

[...] and you’re running multi-core-aware apps. And forget Windows XP. Most likely it’ll just get confused by all those CPUs or your license just won’t permit using them. You’ll need a hotfix and a prayer [...]

By: Maggy

Maggy — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:15:03 +0000

I have a hyperthreading system since 2 years now, so I can talk by experience. For lots of people it wouldn't make any difference. It won''t make you type faster or fly faster through Google Earth, it doesn't make your Internet connection any faster and fortunately it doesn't make music or DVD movies run any faster either. Searching files on harddisk takes harddisk time, not processor power. And lots of programs, even Google Sketchup!! can only use a single processor.

But: I can run a file search on a 500GB disk, perform a large unzip, run disk defragmentation, a backup program and a 3D ray tracer all in the background simultaneously while watching a stutter-free movie. BTW both my disk defragmenter and ray tracer are HT aware, the rest of the software is not. In such cases CPU load is constantly near 100%.

By: sared2181

sared2181 — Mon, 28 May 2007 13:13:59 +0000

lol, probably a little late, but i was having diffuculty getting this to work on XP Home edition. it has HTT available, but disabled, as says 3dmark06, but this fix just aint cracking it.

i use a celeron d 3.06 with a 512kb l2 cache processor on xp home with sp2.

Also, IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET THE FUCKER TO RETURN TO NORMAL AFTER I FUCKED IT UP at all? like, if i use my backed up version of boot.ini, it just restarts when booting.

HELP IF ANYONE STILL READS THIS – agentsmithak@yahoo.com.au – cmon!

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By: kash

kash — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 20:01:26 +0000

I did all moving files and changing the boot.ine file and restarted and realized that I have an older processor that doesn’t support hyperthreading, haha. Luckily I had made a backup of the boot.ini file. Thanks for the tip anyway.

By: marty

marty — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:35:42 +0000

tribute to mac users – this is probably a little dated but is VERY funny ;-) http://members.cox.net/clyqz/mac.swf

By: sd

sd — Tue, 31 May 2005 21:19:01 +0000

Whew, sure glad I’m a Mac user. :) Next purchase for home media: mac mini.

By: marty

marty — Tue, 31 May 2005 16:07:39 +0000

Thanks for the tip! I turned on HT on my Media Center PC, (Dell 8300) on first reboot the tuner didn’t work but on the second reboot everything is working fine. I’m not sure I see as much of a speed improvement as when I bumped the memory from 1GB to 2GB but every little bit helps!

By: the all-powerful, etc, eric

the all-powerful, etc, eric — Sun, 29 May 2005 15:54:39 +0000

ha ha!
- one of your mac friends

By: Dave P

Dave P — Sun, 29 May 2005 03:38:14 +0000

Did you notice much of a performance difference after enabling HT? BTW, I’m leaning towards the fancy Mt Hagen trip…