p4 and hyper-threading

[Bevan C. Bennett]

WipeOut wrote:
>
> To be honest HT does not make any real difference that I could see.. its 
> not really worth the effort of the upgrade if you are happy in RH7.3..

The potential benefits of hyperthreading are -extremely- application 
dependent. That they do or don't help for one person or application has 
pretty much zero bearing on their utility for another.

For more about hyperthreading, I recommend the following article:

http://arstechnica.com/paedia/h/hyperthreading/hyperthreading-1.html