On top of Intel's other troubles (heat dissipation, AMD beating them soundly on price perf, dual cores that suck), now their only tech that is not duplicated by AMD is the source of performance degradation. After having read the articles it seems that the problem is that with HT enabled the contention for the cache is the bottle neck. Each actual thread only gets half the cache affecting the performance drastically. Its really obvious when you think about it, which I hadn't (its been a while since I had even considered that an Intel chip was a candidate for any computer that I buy so I hadn't considered it).
At its inception, Intel was touting its benefits. It turns out that when you really need the benefits then it becomes a problem. Its really funny!!! Here's the link: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39237341,00.htm and here's the slashdot article: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/19/1358218&tid=118&tid=126&tid=137 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
