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Intel Xtreme?!

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Anthem515

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What is the difference between regular P4's or PD's and P4 Extreme Edition and PD Extreme Edition?
 
Regular P4's only have 1 core. It may appear to have 2 if it uses hyperthreading, as that creates two "virtual" cpus, but it still has only one real core.

A Pentium-D is a Dual Core Pentium 4. Two real cores on one chip.

A Pentium Extreme Edition is just a P4 with more cache and an inflated price tag

A Dual Core Pentium Extreme Edition is a Dual Core P4 that also has Hyperthreading, so it will appear as 4 virtual CPUs.
 
yar, the previous poster is right, i think.

I got the socket 478 3.4ghz pentium 4-ee on my old rig, and it has a
L3 cache, and displays CPU1 and CPU2, although its just one core.
 
So would the P4 Dual Core Extreme Edition be about as good as it gets for video encoding right now?(xvid, h264, etc.)

topaimz, you said you have a 3.4ee in your old rig. Just curious.. what did you replace it with?
 
So a Pentium-D does not have hyperthreading enabled? :confused: If you want a Dualcore HT = P4D EE? only?
 
yes. exactly. dual core p4's don't have HT. dual core p4EE's do. why would anyone need HT if they also have a dualcore cpu? that's the real question. the plausibility that one person using a P4EE would be multitasking heavily enough to require HT is..kinda..not there. I guess it's possible, but the vast majority of people that I know of that have P4D's barely multitask enough to make one core sweat, let alone two.

Also, AFAIK, windows XP doesn't even support 4 cpus (virtual or real) I think you'd have to use win2k3 server. or TEH LEWNIX.
 
m0unds said:
Also, AFAIK, windows XP doesn't even support 4 cpus (virtual or real) I think you'd have to use win2k3 server. or TEH LEWNIX.
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Microsoft specifies that XP Professional will support up to 2 physical processor sockets. There is no limit on how many physical or real processor cores it can use, as long as you can somehow fit them into 2 sockets.
 
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