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To: Elmer who wrote (72711)	2/28/2002 8:49:14 AM
From: minnow68	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Elmer, And for many applications, Kap was more correct than I would have ever guessed. From the gamepc.com review, there are some _shocking_ benchmark results. For example, the 50 MB windows media encoding on a dual Xeon took 2:34 without HT. It took 3:03 with HT turned on. Turning HT on slowed things down by 18%!!! Looking at all the gamepc.com benchmarks and the infoworld benchmark, I would not turn on HT on a machine under my control unless it was running a limited number of applications and I knew that HT would actually help those apps in the way that I used them. I've only seen about 20 benchmarks using HT so far, and the results as a whole have not been impressive. There seem to be just as many pathological cases where HT seriously harms performance as there are good cases where the HT seriously helps. Obviously, this picture may very well change as more benchmarks come in. Mike

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