Getting used to Hyperthreading..

[joemama]

Maybe it's just me but...I still haven't been able to get used to doing more than one thing at once since I got my Northwood a while back. Years and years of only being able to do one processor intensive task at a time is a hard habit to break. About the only thing I do is have downloads going at the same time I'm doing other things but I also did this before HT. HELP ME!!

 

[Mark Larson]

I didn't need any training period when i built my dually...

I guess i was already used to doing multiple tasks on my AthlonXP.

Just curious, what processor intensive tasks are you thinking about?

No, the above post was not meant to be a troll.

 

[Typical Gamer]

I been trying it out and now I do it on the regular. EVE online has some long boring parts to it so i put it in windowed mode and load up another game. Recently I been playing that Castle Strike demo while mining in EVE which takes a long time. Having AIM, internet explorer, and one or two games at the same time runs perfectly fine on this machine.

 

[oozish]

Personally, i think HT is the sheat! I've always just loaded one million simultaneous things, it's just that with win2k I would bog everything down and basically freeze everything up for a couple minutes. I still tried tho.

Now, I can load up 10 apps and run everything pretty well. I'm always surprised if I'm able to lag something out on my system, but it does happen occasionally (usually an explorer shell crash or something, which will fix itself or is easily fixed after a moment).

 

[ziddey]

i run about 25 or so ie's constantly. for some strange reason, xp gets wierd on me when i get too high but .net lets me have fun all the way up to 50 or so

for the record, im dont have ht and am eagering awaiting the upgrade

 

[AH786]

the other day I came down to sit on my PC after my sister finished playing GTA VC. had a quick blast on VC before exiting it. and then found max payne 2 running in the background. VC was running just as fast as normal.

normally I run my TV program, av scan, spybot scan, few IE windows at the same time.

 

[mrgstiffler]

I think HT is great for MMORPG players. I run Galaxies in windowed mode, and then go about my normal day on my computer while I'm waiting for something on SWG. It's incredible how smoothly I can run everything this way...

 

[MemoryInAGarden]

I've noticed the biggest difference in hashing files on BT, recording TV, ripping music/movies, and other super intensive tasks. On my willy, I'd just have to let it work at it and leave it alone. With HT, I can still use my comp. A few things aren't as smooth as my other rig, but I believe that is due to only 512 ram instead of a gig.

 

[USMC2Hard4U]

HT is why i bought a P4 over a A64

 

[kur1j]

Originally posted by USMC2Hard4U
HT is why i bought a P4 over a A64

same here.

 

[Mark Larson]

Originally posted by USMC2Hard4U
HT is why i bought a P4 over a A64

The A64's weren't out when you bought your 2.4C IIRC.

 

[USMC2Hard4U]

I bought my P4 2.8C back on the 1st of November

The A64s were out... thank you...

 

[jacuzz1]

LMFAO dude I love it

 

[Mark Larson]

Originally posted by USMC2Hard4U
I bought my P4 2.8C back on the 1st of November

The A64s were out... thank you...

Yes, and the fact that there was only a $ 400+ processor of the Athlon64 range out vs a $ 160 P4 had no role to play in your decision. Anyway, i'm just bringing this up because it is inaccurate to say that there were Athlon64's aplenty around back when you bought your CPU.

Actually, scratch that. I thought you had a 2.4C. If you didn't, i may have the wrong person.

 

[Duckzilla]

Wow, my fanboy detector is going wild.

 

[redpriest]

Yet more different anecdotes. I still don't see what the big deal is. I get can my HT P4 to bog down in a quagmire of applications, yet my dual opteron runs just fine. Maybe having a real dually machine has spoiled me (Probably having 4 GB of RAM...)