burning_kittins

i am not 100% sure. its supose to make thinks faster...

i will jest copy paste some info for you.
HTEP replaces the old RTC

The HPET can produce periodic interrupts at a much higher resolution than the RTC and is often used to synchronize multimedia streams, providing smooth playback and reducing the need to use other timestamp calculations such as an x86 CPU's RDTSC instruction.

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While 8254 and RTC can, similarly to HPET, be put in one-shot mode, the set-up process is so slow that their one-shot mode is not used in practice for tasks requiring precise scheduling.[3] Instead, 8254 and RTC are typically used in periodic mode with very small time interval. For example, if an application needs to perform several short (some milliseconds, perhaps) waits, it is better to have a periodic timer running constantly with 1 ms period because of the high setup cost of an 8254 or RTC one-shot timer. This causes an interrupt on every millisecond even if the application needs to do actual work less frequently. With HPET, the extra interrupts can be avoided, because the set-up cost of a HPET one-shot timer is considerably smaller.

wiki xD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer

urinemachine

so leave it off?

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