so does it run double the speed [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_rolleyes.gif[/img] or is it windows trying to make out that it is better that it really is? [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_ph34r.png[/img]
its not gonna run at twice the speed. using linux in our weather models we get around a 30% performance gain with HT on using the 2.6 kernel. So it is some gain but not twice.
Basically HT allows the CPU to do two commands per clock cycle so it seems it as two cpu's