Because hyperthreading gives a real advantage in the way most people use their computers. No use to us, but it's going to make word processing and web browsing just that bit faster.

Yeah. Really useful.

Hello,

Finally, Intel is starting to eliminate the bottle necked legacy 'front side bus' as AMD did as far back as 2002 or earlier. They are using a similiar architecture to AMD which is the based off the Digital Compaq Alpha EV bus design. I believe I read the Intel 'Quick Path' will use the Alpha EV7.0 ver 2.0 specifications where AMD licensed and used the Alpha EV6.8 or similiar. Both are a very advanced, efficient, super scalar, low latency architecture.

Man, I had a P4 CPU only one time with Hyperthreading enabled and it actually caused programs to run slower and even crash!!! I'm not looking forward to the re-emergence of Intel Hyperthreading, I hope it can be disabled in the BIOS.

Set the controls for the heart of the sun.

Version 6.2.x has a percent choice for CPU processors, so 50% would take 4. Then at least for Windows there's a great tool to assign BOINC individual processes to physical cores (auto-affinity). Just tell it that e.g. HCC is only allowed on 0 through 3 or 1,3,5,7 or any other combination.

Fear, not for the faint hearted though. The things one does for overboard volunteer computing

And more interesting crunch 8 WU at a time and each WU only need 1 hours to complete