Re: Dell Pentium D Performance Question
- From: "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:44:42 GMT
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In article <b90he19a6slojirgqa2afeqen1iiij8pqc@xxxxxxx>,
> tomba_nospam_@xxxxxxxxx says...
>> I'm in dispute with Dell. They offered, and I ordered, a 9100
>> Pentium-D 3.0ghz system with hyperthreading (HT). The shipped system
>> does not have hyperthreading, which I need to run multiple copies of a
>> CPU-intensive application.
>>
>> They claim that multipe core capability (MCC), which the system has,
>> is faster than hyperthreading.
>>
>> Is that right?
>>
>> Are HT and MCC mutually exclusive or can I have both?
>>
>> Thanks for any insights.
>
> If you really thing that HT will make that much of a difference then you
> may be mistaken: If your application is not properly threaded it won't
> gain more than 5% from a HT CPU. If it's not properly threaded it won't
> gain much benefit from a Dual CPU or Dual Core CPU - about 10% is all.
>
> Dual Core is faster than HT, and Dual CPU's are faster than Dual Core.
>
> --
>
Why would Dual CPUs be faster than a Dual Core CPU? The pathways between
the CPUs would be faster in the Dual Core.
Tom
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