Pentium 3.06GHz w/HT put to the test

[Julio Franco]

HardOCP is first in the block with their Pentium 3.06GHz CPU review. Without doubt what takes this processor apart from the rest is the new Hyper-Threading technology being applied to it, now I can easily see how my new 2.53GHz P4 is getting old pretty fast.

On a related note, P4s are finally showing their great scalability, AMD will sure have no choice in the high-end other than wait for next generation CPUs early 2003.

 

[Arris]

Both Toms and Anand have their articles up as well:

• Tomshardware review and benchmarking of 3.06Ghz HT P4 with video of 3.06 HT out performing OC'd 3.6Ghz non-HT in multitasking in WinXP.
• Anandtech's review of the 3.06Ghz HT P4

 

[RustyZip]

Just a quick question...

This new Hyper-Threading technology, Will this speed all applications? Or is it like Multi-Processors where the software has to be written so it can specifically use the extra technology?

I ask this because i read somewhere that this new hyper-threading makes Windows XP "see" two CPU's...

 

[Rick]

The article says that Hyper-Threading will NOT require special programming to be taken advantage of. So regardless of how old the application is, it will take advantage of the hyper-threading technology.. Most likely because it is handled at the hardware level than software.

 

[StormBringer]

According to the stuff I've read about Hyper-threading, it is treated by the system like dual CPUs(for all intensive purposes) therefore I would imagine that the only applications that would gain anything from this would be those which are already capable of taking advantage of multiple porcessors. But I hav4en't seen anything to indicate that applications which don't support it will magically be able to do so with this when they get nothing from a dual CPU system.

Yes, Windows XP is supposed to see it as two CPUs and the system handles it that way.

 

[Phantasm66]

I have seen a xeon based system that does this already. It has 2 processors but on POST reports 4 logical processors.

Windows XP is a better choice for hyper-threading than 2000 if you have more than 1 physical processor. Its much more hyper-threading aware.

 

[conradguerrero]

Originally posted by Phantasm66

Windows XP is a better choice for hyper-threading than 2000 if you have more than 1 physical processor. Its much more hyper-threading aware.

Also, the new intel chip requires Windows XP.