On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 09:25 -0700, Carruth, Rusty wrote:
> In my past experience, I had noticed that the BOGOMIPS reported on
> (each of the) hyperthreading enabled CPUs was half that of the same
> CPU with hyperthreading turned off. Which made me believe that the 2
> CPUs were effe
First Gen Hyperthreading was interesting but the processors and
corresponding front side bus's did not have enough bandwidth to utilize the
technology correctly. the current rendition has far more bandwidth
available and it is far more useful.
In working with linux it is much better at
In my past experience, I had noticed that the BOGOMIPS reported on (each of
the) hyperthreading enabled CPUs was half that of the same CPU with
hyperthreading turned off. Which made me believe that the 2 CPUs were
effectively half the speed of the single one. (That is, if single is 2
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> participate in.
> [quote]Even though an AGP card may not support vdpau acceleration, a p4
> should be able to use the Nvidia driver to get some openGL 2D accelerated
> output for XBMC. You should also have hyperthreading turned on in the BIOS,
> so the system will
should also have hyperthreading turned on in the BIOS,
so the system will see two CPU cores, as XMBC will take advantage of that
for maybe a 20% performance boost. My netbook, with a slow 1.2 GHz
hyperthreaded Intel Atom CPU and 945M graphics, is still able to play back
720p h.264 encoded movies
