HT on Earlier P4's

Dempsey · 05-03-2004 4:18pm #1

I was doing that steam survey for HL2 and the Hardware List said that my P4 2Ghz CPU supported Hyper Threading. I heard of a program that can enable it on the earlier P4 CPU's. Has anyone looked into this?

Its a P4 2Ghz w/512kB Cache 478 Pin Socket

kaimera · 05-03-2004 9:43pm

if you're any good at soldering you can go at the P4 and enable HT

feylya · 05-03-2004 9:46pm

I heard of a thing, I think Tom's hardware had it, but basically it plugs in between your motherboard and your chip and enables HT on 1.8 ghz P4s and up.

Dempsey · 05-03-2004 10:04pm

Originally posted by Kaimera
if you're any good at soldering you can go at the P4 and enable HT

My hand is abit shaky but ahhh **** it why not...:D

I thought it was some program you could get ( I hope)

rabbitinlights · 06-03-2004 1:15am

Would it really make any noticable difference?

VeVeX · 06-03-2004 5:53pm

I read in a mag that HT has been on processors since PIII's . Just never enabled.

Sir Random · 06-03-2004 7:04pm

You can use U-shaped pieces of wire (carefully dropped into two socket holes) to connect processor pins without soldering. That way, it's easily undoable too.

Dempsey · 06-03-2004 7:53pm

Could I have a link or something, plz? I cant find a thing on it

po0k · 07-03-2004 7:01am

Originally posted by KeithD
I read in a mag that HT has been on processors since PIII's . Just never enabled.

northwood P4s and their Xeon counterparts I heard off Anandtech/Xbit Labs.

HT on Earlier P4's

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