What is Hyper-Threading Technology and Why Do Flightsimmers Need It?
You may have heard about what an important breakthrough Intel has achieved with the Pentium 4 processor Hyper-Threading Technology (HTT). You may be wondering what HTT is and why a flightsimmer might want it on your PC. HTT from Intel enables the processor to execute two threads (a part of a program) in parallel. So your software can run more efficiently and you can multitask more effectively than ever before. Hyper-Threading Technology also improves processor performance and responsiveness, giving you the power to do more tasks on your PC at once such as playing a game while encoding digital music or editing digital video while encoding digital music. Best of all for flightsimmers, HTT and Windows XP enable you to flawlessly record full-motion, high resolution, video of your flights and save it to a compressed AVI video file on your hard drive without the need to go out to a video camera or digital recording deck. By utilizing the multitasking features of Microsoft Windows XP, a Penti
