Re: Hyper-threading

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Mike Dresser wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > Well it is supposed to. It's a pentium 4 Xeon. If it doesn't
> > support it, ether the CPU or the motherboard are broken.
> > I'll bet on the motherboard.
> > Look further up the dmesg output and you'll see XEON(tm) and
> > 2 CPUs total.
>
> Indeed, I saw that.  On the P4 2.66ghz that you have, the "second" cpu is
> disabled by intel, as they sell hyperthreading only on the newer Xeon P4
> (which you don't have), and the new 800FSB (4x200) units, which again
> you don't have.
>

Well, the CPU I bought was supposed to support hyper-threading. That's
what it even says on the box (new Hyper-thread technology)! I guess
Hyper-thread technology isn't "hyper-thread", only its "technology",
like it's got some pins and takes power.

> ..... CPU clock speed is 2672.7802 MHz.
> ..... host bus clock speed is 133.6388 MHz.
>
> There is a Xeon 2.66 part, however it has 603 pins, and would not fit on
> your IC7-G board, which is a P4 board, not a P4 Xeon board,
>

These were purchased together to be a "hyper-thread" board
for my new system. I have always had two CPUs since SMP became
available, and I wanted to experiment with the new "single-CPU"
SMP architecture.

> CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz stepping 07 is correct.
>
> OT:  Are your two 100mbit cards PCI or something?  I noticed the onboard
> gigabit adapter isn't detected.
>
> Mike
>

I got ripped off. I got sold a board that doesn't have the gigibit
adapter populated plus, you can't tell from a distance because the
connector is present, but has some metal tape covering the hole.

This board costs $275 plus the CPU was $635. I got badly raped
and the vendor won't take them back.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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