Texasbobby,
PCPit Stop is OK till you view what
systems you are pitted against.
Try this benchmark
http://www.sisoftware.net/
Also see
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=15000182
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=20000190
Little deep but may give you some
insite on how CPU's work.
I'm sure others will follow with better answers.
Bill
.
I have a Dell Dimension 8250 with an Intel P4 3.06GHz processor and 1G of RDRAM. Here's my question:
While scrolling through the BIOS settings, I noticed that the CPU hyperthreading setting was "disabled". I changed it to "enabled", then ran through "PC Pitstop" several times for a performance comparison. To my surprise, the "disabled" setting produced significantly better MIPS scores....to the tune of about 40-50% higher scores! Does this make sense? Am I doing something wrong regarding settings?
Everything I read on the Intel and Dell websites says that this CPU supports hyperthreading, but it runs much slower when it's enabled! What's up?
Thank you very much!
Texasbobby

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