For gaming the best CPU money can buy is AMD Athlon? 64 FX-51 Processor
But it will set you back about $750 :-{
Hyper-Threading or Hyper Transport with is right for you? Confused
you not alone, let me try and help. First lest look at what they can
do, yes they are different. Then I will break it down to the simplest
as possible terms.
Hyper-Threading Technology
Hyper-Threading Technology enables multi-threaded software
applications to execute threads in parallel. This level of threading
technology has never been seen before in a general-purpose
microprocessor. Internet, e-Business, and enterprise software
applications continue to put higher demands on processors. To improve
performance in the past, threading was enabled in the software by
splitting instructions into multiple streams so that multiple
processors could act upon them. Today with Hyper-Threading
Technology, processor-level threading can be utilized which offers
more efficient use of processor resources for greater parallelism and
improved performance on today's multi-threaded software.
Hyper-Threading Technology provides thread-level-parallelism (TLP) on
each processor resulting in increased utilization of processor
execution resources. As a result, resource utilization yields higher
processing throughput. Hyper-Threading Technology is a form of
simultaneous multi-threading technology (SMT) where multiple threads
of software applications can be run simultaneously on one processor.
This is achieved by duplicating the architectural state on each
processor, while sharing one set of processor execution resources.
Hyper-Threading Technology also delivers faster response times for
multi-tasking workload environments. By allowing the processor to use
on-die resources that would otherwise have been idle, Hyper-Threading
Technology provides a performance boost on multi-threading and multi-
tasking operations for the Intel NetBurst® microarchitecture.
This technology is largely invisible to the platform. In fact, many
applications are already multi-threaded and will automatically
benefit from this technology. However, multi-threaded applications
take full advantage of the increased performance that Hyper-Threading
Technology has to offer, allowing users will see immediate
performance gains when multitasking. Today's multi-processing aware
software is also compatible with Hyper-Threading Technology enabled
platforms, but further performance gains can be realized by
specifically tuning software for Hyper-Threading Technology. This
technology complements traditional multi-processing by providing
additional headroom for future software optimizations and business
growth.
Overview Hyper-Threading Technology
Hyper-Threading Technology offers many benefits to e-Business and the
enterprise such as:
1. Enables more user support improving business productivity
2. Provides faster response times for Internet and e-Business
applications enhancing customer experience
3. Increases number of transactions that can be processed
4. Allows compatibility with existing IA-32 applications and
operating systems
5. Handles larger workloads
6. Offers headroom for future business growth and new solution
capabilities
HyperTransport? technology
Q: What is HyperTransport? technology?
A: HyperTransport? technology is a new high speed, high performance
point-to-point link for interconnecting integrated circuits on a
motherboard. It can be significantly faster than a PCI bus for an
equivalent number of pins. HyperTransport was previously codenamed
Lightning Data Transport, or LDT. HyperTransport technology was
invented by AMD and perfected with the help of several partners
throughout the industry. It is primarily targeted for the IT and
Telecomm industries, but any application where high speed, low
latency and scalability is necessary can potentially take advantage
of HyperTransport technology. HyperTransport technology was invented
in order to unleash the tremendous power of the AMD microprocessors.
HyperTransport is planned to bring the computation experience to a
new level.
HyperTransport technology is a high-speed, low latency, point-to-
point link designed to increase the communication speed between
integrated circuits in computers, servers, embedded systems, and
networking and telecommunications equipment up to 48 times faster
than some existing technologies.
HyperTransport technology helps reduce the number of buses in a
system, which can reduce system bottlenecks and enable today's faster
microprocessors to use system memory more efficiently in high-end
multiprocessor systems.
HyperTransport technology is designed to:
Provide significantly more bandwidth than current technologies
Use low-latency responses and low pin counts
Maintain compatibility with legacy PC buses while being extensible to
new SNA (Systems Network Architecture) buses.
Appear transparent to operating systems and offer little impact on
peripheral drivers.
Overview HyperTransport
1. HyperTransport (HT) is a universal, chip-to-chip
communication technology for integrated circuits.
2. HT provides a high speed, high performance and highly
scalable interconnect for devices down on the system board.
3. HT's scalability enables it to be used in a wide range of
applications from cost-sensitive embedded applications up to
enterprise-class, multiprocessor servers.
4. HT can provide up to 12.8 GBytes/second of aggregate
bandwidth
5. And has built-in support for legacy busses, like PCI and AGP.
6. HT's packet-based, split-transaction protocol complements
the newest I/O technologies, like PCI-X and PCI Express. By reducing
the number of buses in the system,
7. HT can reduce the overall system cost and complexity.
8. HT was originally designed by AMD for high performance
personal computer platforms.
The break down
HyperTransport? technology offers many benefits for online gamers ;-]
While Hyper-Threading Technology offers many benefits to Business.
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