Pentium 4/i3/i7/xeon-fags, do you have hyperthreading on or off?
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Pentium 4/i3/i7/xeon-fags, do you have hyperthreading on or off? What applications aside from cinebench do you find perform better with it on?
Which perform worse? Do you ever bother turning it on for certain uses?
Obviously there's no advantage in throughput or compute since that depends purely on physical core count, theoretically better scheduling is all you get.
>>55130527
I'm not going to bother rebooting into my BIOS to disable or enable it. It won't make enough of a difference either way.
>>55130527
i5-2520M here, I get about 10% better performance when encoding with Flac, Lame and Opus
>>55130568
>10% better performance when encoding with Flac, Lame and Opus
Thanks, that's helpful for me.
>>55130568
Oh, this is with 4 instances of the encoder at the same time, I transcode using Foobar
>>55130527
It'd be retarded to turn of hyberthreading on an i3, some gaymes refuse to run without at least 4 threads.
I had an i5 3570K before, which shuttered when I played ME3 while converting in the background. I replaced it with a 3770K and now everything works flawless.
The only difference in these CPUs is hyperthreading.
