Hyperthreading - The quest to unlock on ALL Northwoods

[cct]

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=139484
http://www.vrforums.com/showthread.php?s=068f0b2371dac87df5741fdcc835463d&threadid=5525&perpage=15&pagenumber=4
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=528236&perpage=15&pagenumber=8
Ive been following the above threads as i have a 1.6A Northwood and would love do get it doing Hyperthreading.
A guy in those forums above reckons to have stumbled upon it by getting a 2.4B Northwood running with Hyperthreading by accident but cannot reproduce it again.
I know theres one or two Intel fab' employees that occasionally make an appearence on this forum so was wondering if they may be interested in helping these guys - anonymous/unofficially of course

What you reckon - pi$$ing in the wind or looks promising?

 

[Wingznut]

Originally posted by: cct
What you reckon - pi$$ing in the wind or looks promising?

If this were a poll, "pi$$ing in the wind" would get my vote.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: cct
What you reckon - pi$$ing in the wind or looks promising?

If this were a poll, "pi$$ing in the wind" would get my vote.

And I completely agree.

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Rand

Originally posted by: Wingznut

Originally posted by: cct
What you reckon - pi$$ing in the wind or looks promising?

If this were a poll, "pi$$ing in the wind" would get my vote.

And I completely agree.

Me too.... but I guess you cant be 100% certain.
although very close... hehe

 

[Miramonti]

that would be a heck of a coup if he can 'duplicate' the results, but until then..........hahahaha.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

well time to read for me

if this guy can get this to work, intel i can imagine will be not happy

 

[Hulk]

I remember when Intel began locking multipliers on cpu's there was a great effort put forth to "break the lock." Alas, it was not to be.

Unfortunately, I do not forsee HT being activated either.

 

[canadianpsycho]

I don't know why everyone has such a hardon for HT anyways... The benchies don't exactly astound me very much(gamer)...

I managed to speak with a fellow at the Intel Channel Conference a week ago, and he said HT will only be for the 3.06 and up. From what I've been reading, intel disables HT during the manufacturing process.

Coupled with the so-so Granite Bay and PE reviews/benchies, my 1.6 @ 2.35 and 4G4A+ will be together for some time I think. Until I get a 1.8...

 

[cct]

Thanks for the input guys
Guess i wont have to keep feverishly refreshing those threads for a scoop to play with after all
The thought of ripping out my P4 and clipping its wings with a pair of pliers made me think i must just be bored with nothing better to do i guess.
Time to pop my nose into a book for now.
If any you guys do hear anything please keep us all informed as i still have the urge to try this for the sake of it.

Warm Regards,

Chris

 

[BFG10K]

Even if you managed to get it working you're going to have performance hits in certain cases. The HT used in the 3.06 GHz version is different to the earlier versions.

 

[Shagga]

The 2.4(B)GHz CPU that had HT enabled was an Engineering Sample. Therefore the quest is likely to be useless...

 

[cct]

I currently use a SMP Tualatin rig and only went with it because single CPU rigs i have previously owned bogged down real quick when heavily multitasking.
I was thinking that the trade in overall performance with HT would be greatly outweighed by the ability to cope with multitasking on a par with previous SMP setups hence my interest.
Only thing that has me wondering is how this is affected by the bus being shared as opposed to an AMD SMP solution where each CPU has its own bandwidth unlike my current Tualatin SMP setup where the bus is shared.
Makes me think this HT thing is just a poor mans SMP alternative. This would actually be kinda useful to your average multimedia Joe, yeah?
Dunno if i would trade my SMP rig for this though.
Any of you guys had any personal handson with a HT enabled "uniprocessor" rig?