Nah man, I forgot the links! Doh, yeah even in dual core systems hyperthreading slows down rendering of cirtian appliactions
This link shows dual cores, hyperthreading etc. (and even mentions to switch it off in the BIOS for ture switch off)
https://tomshardware.co.uk/2004/05/28...uck/index.html
Heres the link for the cgtalk thread
https://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...light=maya+7.0
thers also a maya 8 thread. if you search for it!
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