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GA-8IEXP hyperthreading
I have a 2002-vintage GA-8IEXP version 1.2 motherboard at home. It had
a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 Northwood CPU. I flashed the BIOS to Gigabyte version F9 (Award 6.00 PG 11/01/2002) which supposedly allows hyperthreading, and then installed a used 3.06GHz Pentium 4 Northwood (SL6PG) CPU which supposedly has hyperthreading capability. CPU-Z reports the CPU is Family F, Model 2, Stepping 9, Rev D1 and the chipset is i845E Rev E0. I was hoping that hyperthreading would speed up simultaneously running an FPGA compiler and an MS-DOS math program that I use for simulation of the FPGA outputs. When I run both programs, a compilation takes up to four times longer than when I run only the compiler, 24 minutes versus 6 minutes. 6 minutes is slow but 24 minutes is intolerable. A computer at work with dual-core CPU and dual-channel memory runs the compiler in the same time (2.5 minutes) regardless of the MS-DOS program. A faster computer at home is impractical right now. The 3.06GHz CPU now runs stable and cool but without hyperthreading, according to Belarc Advisor and Windows XP Task Manager. I have not found anything in the BIOS setup about controlling hyperthreading. How can I enable hyperthreading? |
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