gamerman4 Active Member Jul 4, 2009 #2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading It is basically a technology made by Intel that allows a CPU core to process two threads simultaneously. This is done by appearing as two virtual cpus to the OS and the OS splits the SMP load between the two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading It is basically a technology made by Intel that allows a CPU core to process two threads simultaneously. This is done by appearing as two virtual cpus to the OS and the OS splits the SMP load between the two.