? on hyperthreading

[Dritnul]

i basically dont know what it does my processor is supposed to support it

it came disabled by default im wonder if i should turn it on and y or y not if u have a question my sig wont answer then ask and ill try and respond quickly

used mostly for games and browsing

 

[dexvx]

Its useful for anything multi-threaded or SMP-aware. Games like Quake 3/4 are SMP aware. Its also extremely useful when multi-tasking.

There is basically no penalty (the only P4's that were penalized were Foster based Xeons). You should enable it.

 

[Dritnul]

"killer" ill do it next time i reboot


...now if i can get my gfx card to load up in pci-express mode

 

[dexvx]

What do you mean gfx load in PCI-E mode?

 

[Dritnul]

it loads into x1 mode instead of what im assuming would be x16 mode

its a C3D x800 GTO running powercolor x800 XT BIOS

 

[secretanchitman]

hmm...oh YEAH!!! you're the one who posted the thread on OT about your hate for dell. i totally agree with you on that...

topics aside, WTF is up with your mobo? it reverts to 1x for absolutely no reason. go into windows, download a program called "cpu-z" and in one of those tabs in the program, it'll say what pci-e mode it is running on.

but yes, DEFINITELY enable hyper-threading. thats basically a good reason why the prescott core p4's are still alive (joking of course and not wanting to start a flame war). you will see a boost in multithreaded programs (latest version of winrar, photoshop, quake 3/4, cod2, etc) and probably overall performance as well. and your FSB will raise from 533FSB to 800FSB.

 

[Dritnul]

i believe my FSB should be at 800MHz but i already enabled it havnt noticed it yet but all ive done is surffed AT for an hour

 

[Dritnul]

Version : PCI express
Link Width: 1
Max. Supported 16

from CPU-z