Andrew just wrote an article questioning if, "Hyper-Threading and dual-channel RAM really have an effect on performance."
"Two new features of the Pentium 4 Northwood and the newest Intel chipsets are Hyper-Threading and Dual-channel RAM controllers. Hyper-Threading works by turning one physical processor into two virtual ones. Dual-channel RAM controllers work by turning two physical 64-bit wide DIMMS into a single 128-bit wide logical DIMM, which should increase total RAM bandwidth. So far, it has been very hard for users without these technologies to see if they really do increase performance. In this article we'll take a look at a number of real world benchmarks to see if these new technologies really do increase performance, or if their usefulness is limited to marketing hype."
Read the full article on Hyper-Threading and dual-channel RAM's effect on performance.
