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Feb 8 2016 08:16am
Quote (yupitsmeh @ Feb 8 2016 02:57pm)
how many games actually support ht?
how long has ht been around?


What do you mean by "support" hyperthreading. There is nothing that the game has to "support"
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Feb 8 2016 08:51am
Quote (maulepan @ Feb 8 2016 09:16am)
What do you mean by "support" hyperthreading. There is nothing that the game has to "support"


lol

here http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gaming-benchmarks-core-i7-3770-hyperthreading-test-20-games-tested.216466/
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And what is this link supposed to tell me? I mean we pretty much all know that most games dont benefit from more then 4 threads. That has nothing to do with "supporting" hyperthreading, its simply that games dont utilize more then 4 threads.

If you have a dual core processor with with hyperthreading most games will assign task to all 4 threads.

This post was edited by maulepan on Feb 8 2016 09:36am
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Quote (maulepan @ Feb 8 2016 10:27am)
And what is this link supposed to tell me? I mean we pretty much all know that most games dont benefit from more then 4 threads. That has nothing to do with "supporting" hyperthreading, its simply that games dont utilize more then 4 threads.

If you have a dual core processor with with hyperthreading most games will assign task to all 4 threads.


plz provide some links or something on this plz do
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Quote (yupitsmeh @ Feb 8 2016 05:20pm)
plz provide some links or something on this plz do


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

I try to put it as simply as possible. Hyperthreading adds a second thread to each core. These Hyperthreads use the ALU's (arythmethik logical units) of the core, that are currently not used by the main thread. Programms for the most part do not make a difference between what is a hyperthread and what is a main thread. They simply have twice the amount of threads they can work with.

Bottom line. Hyperthreading is nothing that needs to be supported by the programm. As long as it uses more then 1 thread it can use hyperthreading as well.

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Quote (maulepan @ Feb 8 2016 11:52am)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading

I try to put it as simply as possible. Hyperthreading adds a second thread to each core. These Hyperthreads use the ALU's (arythmethik logical units) of the core, that are currently not used by the main thread. Programms for the most part do not make a difference between what is a hyperthread and what is a main thread. They simply have twice the amount of threads they can work with.


lol i know what ht is
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