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Lets talk Hyper threading and testing methods

Adul

Adul

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So who hear thinks hyperthreading will make much of a difference with todays games and apps? Who here thinks intel tweak their hyper-threading P4 some since the xeon been running it fora while now? And who wants one? And most importantly, how should Hyper-threading performance be tested?

I think several different configurations with XP installed has well has some of the more popular apps should be loaded.

- Some sort of antivirus program
- ICQ and/or aim (running in the background)
- Seti,eccp, folding@home, etc should be load and tested
- firewall of some type
- various apps from games to office to video encoding should be benched undeer the above conditions 🙂

these are just some ideas i wanted to throw out there. So what do guy suggest?


And for those who need to brush up on hyper threading I suggest reading the below links.
Introduction to Multithreading, Superthreading and Hyperthreading

Hyper threading performance

Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology: Free Performance?

 
The regular slew of tests Hardocp and AT does anyways? AIM i doubt would be "faster" with HT, unless you are macking to 40 girls at one time... with 10 pron pictures going back and forth.
 
Originally posted by: Bangsailio
The regular slew of tests Hardocp and AT does anyways? AIM i doubt would be "faster" with HT, unless you are macking to 40 girls at one time... with 10 pron pictures going back and forth.
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what i mean is have them running in the background like a lot of us do when using other apps.

 
I hope it isn't another MMX situation. With HT enabled CPU's starting at 3.0GHz it will be difficult to gauge what increases in performance we will get when compared to an equally clocked CPU unless that is we can turn off HT.

So I have an open mind at the moment. I want one, but I will wait to see if there really is any advantage..Personally I would like to see Photoshop enhanced to benefit from HT.

😉
 
Well, when you are running applications in the background you are effectively testing the CPU's multitasking capabilities. I don't know if any sites would try to benchmark this but it is very relevent as it does simulate real-world situations more. However, the bulk of benchmarking will still be the standard suit of benchmarks. I think that for single-threaded applications, Intel may have implemented the psuedo-hyperthreading feature that Anand talked about in his coverage of IDF.
 
Well, you could begin by testing between Win98SE or WinME and WinXP/Pro or .NET server. This would give people an idea of an optimized versus non-optimized environment.
 
Originally posted by: MadRat
Well, you could begin by testing between Win98SE or WinME and WinXP/Pro or .NET server. This would give people an idea of an optimized versus non-optimized environment.
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i guess that would give a good diea, except you need an OS with support for it.
 
I believe that .NET server does support it considering its development was with XEON's HT-support in mind.

I thought SP1 was to turn on the support in WinXP/Pro, but I could be wrong.
 
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