Help with Hyperthread Technology

[LabRat]

I just bought ABit IC7 mobo & INTEL P4 2.4 (533FSB) PRESCOT 1MB CPU
& both specs say they can do Hyperthread Technology,
But when i enter bios i cant see Hyperthread Technology in advance settings

bios version ic7_23 (lastest 1 from abit)

thx 4 any help

[Anonicle]

According to this page, Intel states the 2.4A Prescott does not support HT.

[LabRat]

ok thx 4 info m8 shop i bought this from said it had Hyperthread

info from shop i bought this from

Product Overview
The Pentium 4 processor is designed to deliver performance across applications and usages where end-users can truly appreciate and experience the performance. These applications include Internet audio and streaming video, image processing, video content creation, speech, 3D, CAD, games, multimedia, and multitasking user environments. At home, users can encode audio and video at the same time or run a virus scan in the background without diminishing performance on their favourite game. In the office, HT Technology enables IT managers to deploy PC services such as encryption, compression or backup technologies while minimizing the impact on PC user productivity. In addition, multitasking business workers can experience greater system responsiveness enabling increased productivity. In summary, the Pentium 4 processor supporting HT Technology delivers a new level of performance and PC responsiveness for consumers and business professionals.

[Anonicle]

They lied All of the prescotts except the 533 models have HT, looks like the description the shop is using was just a generic one for the 800mhz fsb models.

[Applecrusher]

Does HT make much difference anyway?

[Clstrphbc_donut]

intel say...

Hyper-Threading Technology provides thread-level-parallelism (TLP) on each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor execution resources. As a result, resource utilization yields higher processing throughput. Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor

Looking at that, and if its truth, then yes. also, my 2.4 HT @ 2.5 is a tad off the 2.6 on SiSandra. But personally, i'd like to compare. Also, a HT enabled PC in Device Manager shows it as a multi-processor PC, and i am shown 2x PIIII 2.40ghz under processors. So, it seems to me HT CPU's act like dual CPU 's. Also taken from another forum (Click here to visit thread) its stated it does make a difference when multi-tasking.

HT makes a huge difference when multi-tasking; if you're playing a game it doesn't make much of a difference. If you plan on running IMs, Winamp, IE and Photoshop then it makes the difference. But if you've got a high end processor you don't really need HT unless you'll be doing something like the fore mentioned.

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Hope all that cr4p helps