How much of a difference does hyperthreading make in NASCAR 2003?
Does anyone have an idea of when Intel will come out with a P4 over 3.06
Ghz? I am really interested in a 3.06 (due to hyperthreading) , but the
price is way out of line for me. I figure if they come out with something
faster the price of the 3.06 will fall accordingly. I know you can wait
forever for "the next best thing", but hyperthreading sounds very
interesting since NASCAR 2003 can use it.
Thanks,
Russell
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6676
Basically - it may pop up to 3.2ghz later this year (you can push that
roadmap back 6 months because of difficulties with the 90nm process) - but
that'll be it.
Doug
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> How much of a difference does hyperthreading make in NASCAR 2003? > > Does anyone have an idea of when Intel will come out with a P4 over 3.06 > Ghz? I am really interested in a 3.06 (due to hyperthreading) , but the > price is way out of line for me. I figure if they come out with something > faster the price of the 3.06 will fall accordingly. I know you can wait > forever for "the next best thing", but hyperthreading sounds very > interesting since NASCAR 2003 can use it.Hyperthreading: extra emphasis on HYPE. ;0) It doesn't appear to be a must
have feature for gaming. Probably most useful for regular desktop use with
many apps open, burning, media encoding, etc.
Take a look at this comparison of the AMD 3000+ vs. 3.06 with and without
HT. It appears the 512k L2 cache on the Barton is a more significant
improvement for gaming than HT. The 3000+ Barton outperforms the faster
clocked 2800+ and Intel 3.06 in many gaming benches due to the cache. HT
makes no difference in any of the gaming tests.
http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1783
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Joe M.
"Russell Keating" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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> How much of a difference does hyperthreading make in NASCAR 2003?
>
> Does anyone have an idea of when Intel will come out with a P4 over 3.06
> Ghz? I am really interested in a 3.06 (due to hyperthreading) , but the
> price is way out of line for me. I figure if they come out with something
> faster the price of the 3.06 will fall accordingly. I know you can wait
> forever for "the next best thing", but hyperthreading sounds very
> interesting since NASCAR 2003 can use it.
>
> Thanks,
> Russell
>
>
>
"Joe M."
HT makes no difference in any of the gaming
Did they use N2k3? I was saying pretty much everything you did, but
Eric said the HT works very well with the Papyrus sims.
dave henrie
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> tests. > > http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1783 > > -- > Joe M. >
Dave Henrie wrote:
Yes, I also believe it was Greg Hill or somebody who posted on the
Sierra forums saying that they saw as much as a 25% increase in
performance at times
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> > "Joe M." > HT makes no difference in any of the gaming > > tests. > > > > http://anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1783 > > > > -- > > Joe M. > > > Did they use N2k3? I was saying pretty much everything you did, but > Eric said the HT works very well with the Papyrus sims. > dave henrie"Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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No they didn't but there was another review (can't remember where) that did
show some HT advantages over non-HT in more cpu intensive games like
simulations. It's reasonable to conclude that this would apply to N2003
which is certainly cpu intensive.
I do think any advantage of HT in sims is easily exceeded with a Barton chip
and ESPECIALLY an nForce2 board with dual channel ram. I've seen benches
where the dual channel ram is solely responsible for 10-20% performance
gains over any comparable AMD or Intel configuration.
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Joe M.
