At 6/7/2005 11:52 AM, David W. Fenton wrote:
>On the PC side, there really hasn't been any remarkable difference in
>any of the 1GHz+ CPUs from an end user point of view, except,
>perhaps, in the most computationally intense tasks.
You are correct.
But . . .
For me, who uses multiple "computationally intensive tasks" all the time,
that keeps me from getting coffee during major compiles ;-)
Also, turning on the hyper-threading on recent Xeons, has made an amazing
speed improvement when using VMWare to run multiple OSs at the same time.
For light user, hyper-threading is probably not a big deal.
But, if you run say, a database intensive task while also doing local email
or word processing, hyper-threading really allows the user to not notice
the background tasks.
To turn on hyper-threading, you need to go to the BIOS settings. It will
be in there somewhere ;-)
Phil Daley < AutoDesk >
http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley
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