does HT make THAT! much difference?

CyberGhost

i have Inspiron 5150 wo HT 3.06 processor, is it worth paying 500+ for a processor to get HT technology?

SickBoy

For €20 it does! You bought the wrong system mate
Have a look here. The price to get the 3.06 with HT instead of the 3.06 without HT is only €20...
I hope that URL works...

Originally posted by CyberGhost
i have Inspiron 5150 wo HT 3.06 processor, is it worth paying 500+ for a processor to get HT technology?

CyberGhost

no, i bought the laptop when the HT feature wasn't offered, there was only 1 options without HT

Gerry

No, its not worth it. Jesus, what are you doing that you are worried about the speed of a 3ghz machine.

netman

don't worry man, it makes absolutely no difference in high computing tasks. HT seriously affects some benchmarks that measure application performance that was fast enough even back in pentium days.

for example you'll find out that with HT microsoft word runs 30% faster.. wow!

games, rendering applications, encoding/decoding etc, have very little or no benefit. in fact sometimes they benchmark worse with HT turned on.

if you're buying a new CPU today, it makes more sense to go the HT way, but if you already have a top of the range CPU why worry about some gimmicky feature that's there mostly for marketing purposes.

CyberGhost

thanks for advices guys! intel hyped it up so much i almost bought it

Dempsey

Originally posted by netman

games, rendering applications, encoding/decoding etc, have very little or no benefit. in fact sometimes they benchmark worse with HT turned on.

That seems to happen more with OS's other that Xp.

Its not worth changing for.

MrPinK

HT can, and does, speed up multithreaded programmes. It's a pretty damn good idea, and not just 'some gimmicky feature'. Nice to see Intel do some real innovating again, and not just cranking up clock speeds. You're not going to see the benefit with most games because very few of them are threaded, but new games are start taking advantage of HT and SMP.

Paying hundreds to euro to change your P4 for a HT P4 of the same speed would just be madness though.

GUI

ah wrong

its only supported on win xp and 2003 server atm

and the xp implementation is a half ass patch.

ms said it will be fully implemented in next commercial version of windows aka longhorn

BigEejit

Linux was the first OS to support HT

astrofool

It's only a good idea for the p4 cos the consumerised design of it (over long pipeline), meant that most of the chip is sitting idle. HT is a way to try and over come that, but does not do it very well tbh, multi core is the way to go.

HT will bring no benefit to any other cpu out now bar the p4, Athlon's and Centrino's are designed from start with a smaller pipeline that lets more of the chip be used at once.