Pentium D Vs Pentium 4 HT

Hi there...

I'm considering purchasing new system for jacquard designing based on
CAD system using Suse Linux 10 retail version..

What could be best motherboard & processor..

I'm confused between Pentium D & Pentium HT..

Is there any real difference in performance of both of these?
What could be better for CAD system? Will Suse 10 supports HT or
Pentium D?

If you can figure out good original motherboard from intel that works
with Linux.. that will help me fiugre out system config.

Thanx in Advance
Ark

Any linux based system like Suse will support both Pentium HT or D. It just
may require you to rebuild the kernel to support SMP. Between the two the
pentium D will always have a better performance than the HT processors.
There is also a Pentium Extreme edition which uses both dual cores like the
pentium D and the HT technologies. The last thing you need to figure out is
if your CAD software is multi-thread, ask the vendor, to actually utilitize
multiple processors. Most likely it is for any major CAD software developer.
As far as motherboard brands and linux, any stock motherboard from Intel
that supports any pentium processor should run linux fine.

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Hi there...

I'm considering purchasing new system for jacquard designing based on
CAD system using Suse Linux 10 retail version..

What could be best motherboard & processor..

I'm confused between Pentium D & Pentium HT..

Is there any real difference in performance of both of these?
What could be better for CAD system? Will Suse 10 supports HT or
Pentium D?

If you can figure out good original motherboard from intel that works
with Linux.. that will help me fiugre out system config.

Thanx in Advance
Ark

Thank you

CAD software supports Dual core processors.

I'm just curious about processor because i don't know which one is
better..

Thanks Again

Ark

If given a choice, go with the dual core.


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CAD software supports Dual core processors.

I'm just curious about processor because i don't know which one is
better..

Thanks Again

Ark

Anton Gerbracht wrote:
If given a choice, go with the dual core.




Thanks Anton

Ark

wrote:
Hi there...

I'm considering purchasing new system for jacquard designing based on
CAD system using Suse Linux 10 retail version..

What could be best motherboard & processor..

I'm confused between Pentium D & Pentium HT..

Is there any real difference in performance of both of these?
What could be better for CAD system? Will Suse 10 supports HT or
Pentium D?

Yes, as will Redhat variants like White Box, Centos, or Fedora. For top
performance go for the 955, has both dual core and HT. With your own
money look at the 930...

If you can figure out good original motherboard from intel that works
with Linux.. that will help me fiugre out system config.

I personally like ASUS board, but Intel will work. Installation of the
heat sink is critical with these CPUs, if you go to newegg.com and look
at the comments regarding Intel CPUs, some people have no heating
problems with the stock heatsink, even overclocked, while other whine
about heat even using water cooling. My suspicion is that the stock HS
is okay if installed carefully in a case with lots of air moving through.

I have built a small number of system, maybe 12-14, and not had
problems, so I wouldn't rush to buy a better HS until you try the stock one.

Most people agree that the HS mounting system sucks rocks off the bottom
of the ocean, that leads to many problems. Mounting the CPU and HS
before installing the motherboard helps if your case permits it.

--
-bill davidsen )
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me

Suse "supports" HT from v8.2, but several threads in discussinon on
Internet concernig Suse, report problems (slowing down) with HT
enabled. All sugest solving problems by disabling HT...



Is there any real difference in performance of both of these?
What could be better for CAD system? Will Suse 10 supports HT or
Pentium D?

Mirko S Veselinovic wrote:
Suse "supports" HT from v8.2, but several threads in discussinon on
Internet concernig Suse, report problems (slowing down) with HT
enabled. All sugest solving problems by disabling HT...


Is there any real difference in performance of both of these?
What could be better for CAD system? Will Suse 10 supports HT or
Pentium D?

Current threads??? There were some performance hits back in the early
days for HT support, before the scheduler got smarter, I haven't seen
any problem in over a year with HT performance.

--
bill davidsen
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com

A year or so back, I was asked by my wife to recomed server class PC
for an SCO Unix/Progress system. The server is an IBM Dual Xeon, and
had no problems with SCO/Progress. This year they decided to swith to
Suse (v9.1) instead of SCO, and after installation, they ware unable
to run system stable until they disable HT (as sugested by local IBM
support)!



On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 19:15:34 GMT, Bill Davidsen
wrote:

Mirko S Veselinovic wrote:
Suse "supports" HT from v8.2, but several threads in discussinon on
Internet concernig Suse, report problems (slowing down) with HT
enabled. All sugest solving problems by disabling HT...


Is there any real difference in performance of both of these?
What could be better for CAD system? Will Suse 10 supports HT or
Pentium D?

Current threads??? There were some performance hits back in the early
days for HT support, before the scheduler got smarter, I haven't seen
any problem in over a year with HT performance.

Mirko S Veselinovic wrote:
A year or so back, I was asked by my wife to recomed server class PC
for an SCO Unix/Progress system. The server is an IBM Dual Xeon, and
had no problems with SCO/Progress. This year they decided to swith to
Suse (v9.1) instead of SCO, and after installation, they ware unable
to run system stable until they disable HT (as sugested by local IBM
support)!

I've not had a problem with Redhat or Kernel.Org kernels, but that
doesn't mean there can't be some. Given the potential performance gain,
I would still run HT unless I actually saw a problem. I posted last week
a link to a web server report which showed 37% gain in tps using HT, and
I regularly see 20% reduction in clock time on large compiles.

You can always turn it off if there's a problem with the SuSe kernel.

--
bill davidsen
SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center
http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com