I can not imagine that AMD does not do multi tasking! I do not have this problem with my now ancient Athlon XP processor and I doubt if it is more sophisticated than the new 64 bit jobbie. Cy, the Ancient One... -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of dennis Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 3:39 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: JFW and Athlon 64 Processor CPU usage, is where you have multiple applications running at the same time. J. F. W., does to send a thread of information, to CPU and it has to wait a while. That is why sometimes J. F. W. will stutter. With a penny of 4 with hyper threading, that is usually not the case. And the reason why is because they can process, more than one thread at a time. if you need any more help, or information just ask, I will be willing to help anyone. -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.744 / Virus Database: 496 - Release Date: 8/24/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.744 / Virus Database: 496 - Release Date: 8/24/2004 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx