Jim Dean Sage   Posts: 3022 Joined: 9/21/2006 Location: L'ville, GA  User Profile | Afaik OT, like the vast majority of other software available to retail customers, s not fully optimized to make use of every erg and iota of power of any particular processor or family of processors. It would be a poor business decision to allocate programmer time to that focused an optimization - unless they were actually selling the cpu's as a part of the system OT will run on any processor that supports windows, and afaik on a Mac in parallels mode. Windows does have fairly sophisticated logic to apportion tasks from a single program into multiple threads that can run on multiple processor systems. That was not true in the old days but it definitely is, now. Extensive tests that I did a long while back with quadcore xenon chips in XPx64 proved that "hyperthreading" did NOT help. But that's arcane nowadays. Bottom line is that hardware leading edge is ALWAYS way way ahead of software - even of OS's. The best thing you can do to speed up OT and VT operation, outside of tuning what they actually are doing, is to minimize other simultaneous software operations, make sure you have plenty of (fast) RAM, and (usually neglected) make sure you have a FAST hard drive. I've advocated RAID 5&6 for years - the advent of (pricey) Solid State Drives has much simplified the HD speedup upgrade. I'd strongly recommend putting extra money into HD speedup before dumping a lot into a "really hot" (as opposed to moderately fast) processor. JMHO, fwiw | |
