Can anybody tell me if the P4 Prescott 2.40E supports HT technology or not? If possible please provide link to information about this CPU which clearly supports your answer. Cheers Awooga

Yes it does. http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/43988.htm Wizard ICT. Microsoft Certified Professional

Yes, it does. Not that it really matters, since "HT Tech" is just some useless gimmick. Sure it exists on paper, but theres no real world advantages. http://www.mbx.com/p/intel/pentium_4_24e_ghz_ht/?t=t Cheers. アンドリュー

they have answered you questions and provided the links, but i disagree with ^^^. Hyper Threading technology in Intel chip does actually improve performance over a chip of the same speed without HT, i have seen this first-hand...

HT is an incremental improvement on super-threading, which was used in Xeon chips. Basically, the HT CPU can execute two threads at one time. HT specifically allows sharing of internal execution units to do this. The problem arises when one thread wishes to dominate choke points in the core and cache. This problem *probably* occurs quite frequently in enduser applications because they are not usually threaded for performance but for responsiveness. For example, you want your game to get as many fps as possible; you want your word app to load faster. These dominant processes do not split workloads across units, but rely heavily on a few threads. High-demand, resource-intensive threads will *probably* not perform well on an HT system (i.e. better than a non-HT system). They choke the optimization benefit. What should perform better are servers and other applications that have many similar threads or anything with a more equally divided workload. The HT frontend should be able to use more of the pipeline at any given time with this kind of load.

plus, if you have anything under win xp, it doesn't do a thing. verious types on linux supports hyperthreading also. p4 3.0ghz @ 222X15=3330mhz 512mb pc3200 dual channel @222mhz 80gb wd hdd/40gb seagate when on linux 8x agp geforce 6200 @ 530/585can't unlock extra pipes. plz help if you can Audigy 2 ZS<