Hyper threading.

[Dulrough]

So im organizing the boxes and stuff around my computer and I come across my mobo box. A P4 2.4gh 845GE, and it says "supports hyper threading technology". Alas I have spent a good solid hour trying to enable it, updated the BIOS and all that jazz and nothing.
Not eaven a greyed out option.

Help?

 

[Hazar]

you have to have a cpu that supports hyper threading.

 

[Dulrough]

Oh god, duh...

Mobo supports it but the processor doesnt.
Me = tard.

 

[blahblahblah]

You don't want to enable hyperthreading because that enables hypertransport and the next thing you know your are vertex shading your way back to your L2 cache going at PCI Express 16x speed. Terrible Stuff.

I love computer jargon. :E

You must have a processor that supports hyperthreading. Hyperthreading will not give you a performance increase except in a handful of applications. It is best to leave it alone.

Hyperthreading is a way of utilizing your processor better so it *acts* like a dual processor setup. In reality the speed increase is not nearly that great and has to be coded into the program to take advantage of it. That is as detailed as an explanation of hyperthreading you are going to get from me.