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HyperThreading- Enable?

  • 13-03-2004 2:39pm
    #1
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭


    I have a dell 2.4ghz pc. I was looking around the bios and hyperthreading is disabled. Should i enable this, will it improve/lessen performance?
    Thanks


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  • #2
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    If you can enable it, do so. It'll give you a nice performance increase. Hyper-Threading is a reasonably new technology that almost performs like 2 cpus under certain situations.

    Hyper Threading


  • #3
    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    Originally posted by feylya
    If you can enable it, do so. It'll give you a nice performance increase. Hyper-Threading is a reasonably new technology that almost performs like 2 cpus under certain situations.

    Hyper Threading

    Very helpful there Feyla..... There is a an adaptor you an get that allows some motherboard/CPU pairings to be enabled for HT even if its not allowed on the bios.


  • #4
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,363 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Originally posted by L5
    I was looking around the bios and hyperthreading is disabled. Should i enable this, will it improve/lessen performance?
    Thanks

    His bios and mobo already seems to support hyperthreading. Hence the wee speel about what hyperthreading is.


  • #5
    L5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,951 ✭✭✭L5


    Jesus, i enabled it about 3 hours ago in the bios, loaded up fine, said it was installing some software, then said to restart. So i restart, then nothing.....black screen asking me to load in safe mode or in normal. I tried both numerous times, but it just hung, as if it were frozen. I feared the worst at this stage, but did a repair installation and its working now. Needless to say i disabled it this time!
    Very wierd


  • #6
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,987 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    If you dont know what something is, dont touch it

    random random random get a proper os etc


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  • #7
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Originally posted by L5
    I have a dell 2.4ghz pc. I was looking around the bios and hyperthreading is disabled. Should i enable this, will it improve/lessen performance?
    Thanks

    Depends on what os your using. Which one are you using?
    Jesus, i enabled it about 3 hours ago in the bios, loaded up fine, said it was installing some software, then said to restart. So i restart, then nothing.....black screen asking me to load in safe mode or in normal. I tried both numerous times, but it just hung, as if it were frozen. I feared the worst at this stage, but did a repair installation and its working now. Needless to say i disabled it this time!

    Installing software for what now?


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