Hearthly wrote:
Even today HT can hurt more in games than it helps, my i7 runs with it disabled in the BIOS. Battlefield 4 for example micro-stutters with it turned on, at the end of the day a hyperthreaded core isn't a real core.
That stops on Windows 8 and onward
The core support has been completely rewritten.
I did a few tests last year with a 6c 12t CPU (A X58 Xeon) and found that Windows 8 is far, far better at supporting more threads than 7. Even though Vista is pretty much EOL now I decided to install it any way (I installed a couple of Linux, XP, Vista, 7 &
and my findings were that core support in 7 and below on highly threaded CPUs was erratic at best. Windows 8 though seemed to support them all and spread the loads very evenly, even at just a 'desktop'.
Of course you can 'core park' an I7 in Windows 7 and you can disable HT completely but that doesn't exactly fill you with confidence about an OS far older that was pretty much shit any way.
But hey, as some one said the other day why take my word for it when you pretty much have the entire internet at your fingertips