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Old 2013-04-06, 16:09   #12
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Thank you. That's the sort of answer I needed.
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Old 2013-04-06, 17:24   #13
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.... Hyperthreading off is what most GIMPS people use as it doesn't provide any real benefit for us....
It does not provide a benefit to Gimps, but it can provide a benefit for the dayly work beside Gimps.
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Old 2013-04-06, 18:11   #14
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It does not provide a benefit to Gimps, but it can provide a benefit for the dayly work beside Gimps.
I did say for us impiling GIMPS. Some people do use it to provide a more responsive system while running GIMPS.
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Old 2013-04-08, 17:36   #15
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...and there are also those heretics who just use the software for stress testing out there :P
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Old 2013-04-09, 02:39   #16
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...and there are also those heretics who just use the software for stress testing out there :P
There's probably more stress testers out there than Mersenne prime hunters.
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