WTF! 2.4ghz HT chip????

[markodude]

http://www.vr-zone.com/Home/news170/HT.htm

So is it an Engineering Sample with HT left on? Or will HT really work on older P4's with HT enabled BIOS and Chipset? I think the former is more likely.....I have a couple of ES chips here but no HT mobo to try it

 

[markodude]

My 2.53ES shows similar sandra info to his chip - 1.525v (even though it is 1.5v default) is this normal?

 

[looktall]

HT can not be enabled on the cpu, by flashing the bios.
HT is disabled internally to the chip. just like for multipliers.

there's a thread about that story on OCAU, the concensus over there is that it is an ES chip.
it's possible your ES chip is HT enabled.

 

[seven-eleven]

"HT can not be enabled on the cpu, by flashing the bios. HT is disabled internally to the chip. just like for multipliers"

but then how can u explain this

 

[markodude]

What board is that on m8?

 

[seven-eleven]

ASUS P4PE

 

[markodude]

I see - I never made the quote, but it is now thought that all C1 stepping chips, and some Engineering Sample B0 stepping may have hyperthreading enabled. I have a C1 and a couple of ES chips but am still to test.
Welll done on the findings anyway....

 

[looktall]

did it occur to you that that might be a dual P4?
or an ES chip that has HT enabled.

when intel disables something, they tend to do it in a permanent way. ie. it can not be undone easily, and certainly not via a bios flash.

 

[markodude]

Yeh looktall thats a possibility, but look on the overclockers.com front page, it is a possibility that all C1's have HT, Im not sure though....either that or a lot of HT enabled ES chips are coming out of the woodwork - why then does my P4B-533E and 2.53ES or 2.50 C1 not show up as HT enabled....

 

[seven-eleven]

oppss forgot to mention, it's link from other forum, not my cpu...

 

[looktall]

maybe there are more HT enabled ES chips because more mobo's are supporting it now?

 

[markodude]

looktall - could you point me to the thread on OCAU please>?

 

[looktall]

http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?s=&threadid=112760

i don't normally post links to OCAU threads, coz people have to be registered to even view the forums. lol

EDIT: that thread isn't too active at the moment. it kind of got over shadowed by the [H] review drama. lol