Anyone running W2K with HT enabled?

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Jim MacLaurin

Is anyone running Windows 2000 on an Intel HT chipset/CPU capable mobo with
HT enabled? If so, any caveats that I should be aware of (besides the fact
that W2K doesn't use HT effectively, if at all)?

The reason for my question is that I contemplate getting an Intel HT
CPU/mobo replacing my current AMD/W2K system and want to use all current
hardware cards including a TV capture card. Research tells me that the TV
capture card will not work if HT is enabled and may not work with XP.
Disabling HT (besides losing HT advantages) means that I'll probably see a
10 degree (C) rise in temperature. Not good. So I'm thinking about a dual
boot setup (W2K and XP) wherein I use W2K when I'm doing TV capture, and use
XP for all other work.
 
Jim,
with HT enabled?...<<

I do, and honestly I don't see any difference in real life... everything
seems to me all right ... with benchmark you might see some differences but
everyone knows benchmarks doesn't reflect ordinary use of pc's.


Regards,
michel cr
 
Michel,

Thanks for your post. One final question, if I may. What CPU and MOBO are
you running W2K on?

TIA - Jim
 
Jim,

FWIW I'm running winxp sp1 with a p4 2.4C (HT) with a tv capture card and
snapstream and I have absolutely no issues with any of it, it just works,
right out of the box.

P4C800 Deluxe
1 gig 400 ddr
2 SATA 120gb HD running RAID 0
p4 2.4c running at 3.0 ghz
FSB 250
ATI 9800 pro
Zalman coolers
 
Thanks, Zander. That gives me a good feeling. And, thanks for the tech info!

Jim
 
Jim,


W2k SP4 running with a P4 2.8-C on P4P800 Deluxe rev 1.2, full 1008 bios,
graphic card is either Patrox Parhelia 128 for some pro DTP jobs and PNY
GeForce FX 5600 256 Mo for all other use.

Software; most frequently use on my P4 home-PC:

- PhotoShop 6.01
- Illustrator 9.02
- InDesign 2.02
- Premiere 6.02
- VirtualDub 1.5.6
- MS-Office 2000
 
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