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Alienware offers an AMD Athlon 64 with HT technology. How can this be? I thought intel only offered HT, and how can youadd it to an AMD processor?
 

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doesn't the Nforce4 intel edition have a hyper transport bus connecting the two logic cores and regular FSB to the CPU (which supports hyper threading)

that's really going to marketing, two technologys both saying: 'with HT support'

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Here is a link describing hypertransport:

<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_861_1030,00.html" target="_new">http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_861_1030,00.html</A>

Here is alink describing hyperthreading:

<A HREF="http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/" target="_new">http://www.intel.com/technology/hyperthread/</A>

As you will read, they are too very different technologies-although I would love to see A64's and FX chips ith hyperthreading.
 

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As you will read, they are too very different technologies-although I would love to see A64's and FX chips ith hyperthreading.
And Xeons with Hyper Transport. :)

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endyen

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doesn't the Nforce4 intel edition have a hyper transport bus connecting the two logic cores
What 2 logical cores?
If you mean the north and south bridges, yes. Nvidia has adopted a hypertransport type bus, but only to connect the 2 bridges. It may not offer much over the pci-exp bus, but it may be easier for nvidia.
 

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i do mean the north ad south bridges, i must have read somewhere they are called 'integrated logic cores' or something of the sort

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