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John in VA

I am building a P4 system with an ASUS P4C800-E
mainboard. I was planning on using WIN2000 Professional
as the OS. The manual with the ASUS board states that you
can only get the benefit of hyper thread technology if you
us XP as the OS. Is this true?
 
Hi John,

Windows 2000 will run correctly on HT processor but the performance benefits
will not be as good as Windows XP or Windows Server 2003

With Windows 2000 server there have been an occasional report of negative
performance hit running with HT enabled. This is of course situation
dependent, and in some cases you may need to disable it in the BIOS.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications
 
Ken,

Thank you for the response. I will probably use XP on the
system. Is there a difference in the installation and
operation of XP Professional OS using the OEM version vs.
the retail upgrade package?

Thanks,

John
 
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