Tech Hyper Threading Technology? (Read 175 times)

Aten

#1 April 19, 2008, 01:48:47 am
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Ok, my PC is acting like SHIT now. If I open Firefox, and WMplayer, then my starts fucking up badly. Like, the songs start crackling, my documents take like 20 seconds to open (it shows that searching torch picture thingie) and basically fucks up everything. The PC is fine for a while, then it starts acting up and if restarted, its normal again for a while.

Im wondering now, I have a P4 3.20GHz CPU, 1GB of RAM and STILL its messing like that, why??

Ok, now the question. These are my cpu specs


I have a "Hyper Threading Technology" option in my BIOS. Should it be enabled or disabled? Any other tweak I can try?
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Neophyte

#2 April 19, 2008, 03:03:06 am
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Leave it on, Hyper Threading improves the performance of your processor. It's basically the step before your CPU actually being a dual core.
It sounds to me like something is hogging up all of your RAM or processor usage. Have you checked your task manager to see what tasks are actually running in the background when this occurs? Anything you downloaded recently in the past few days? Your specs are fine for what you're trying to do, so it's something to do with background processes or maybe spyware.
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Ghost_Aspergers

#3 April 19, 2008, 11:41:00 pm
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It'd help if you showed us your Task Manager/ Processes when this happens.

Firefox is an unstable resource hog... so my bet is on that~
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Aten

#4 April 20, 2008, 03:36:39 am
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ok, task manager:


The fun really starts when I turn on MSN messenger. The PC basically becomes unusable, except for msn, which works fine,(i use it to voice chat with my friend in NZ) but the voice chat in smooth as. (only the rest of the pc is basically like someone cast SLOWGA on it or something)
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#5 April 20, 2008, 08:50:14 am
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I would see if your processor has a driver, like AMD has for its athlon 64s and newer, though I don't know for sure if intel does that. I actually hear hyperthreading can slow some games and applications down, and have seen people disable it altogether for that reason.
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