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Sorry to nitpick but Pentium 4 was a temporary flop until the HT version came along for which AMD had no answer. And I don't think the K6 beat Pentium II. Havin
by farseer 8y ago
Sorry to nitpick but Pentium 4 was a temporary flop until the HT version came along for which AMD had no answer. And I don't think the K6 beat Pentium II. Having bought a $2000 K6-2 computer in 1998 with maxed out RAM and graphics, I instantly regretted that decision as all my friend's mediocre Pentium II's ran applications and games better than my K6-2.
- loser777 8y agoNot even a nitpick, the claim that P4 HT had "no answer" from AMD is just false. https://www.anandtech.com/show/1517 https://www.anandtech.com/show/1517 Intel never definitively reclaimed x86 until Conroe/Core 2.
- beagle3 8y agoThe original HT implementation was so incredibly bad that people would turn it off to improve performance on multithreaded loads.
- georgeecollins 8y agoSo true! It only worked on example code, it was very difficult to get an improvement in a real world app.