Hyperthreading - Finally an answer

[Feuerfalke]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Perhaps, but what does that have to do with this topic?

I wondered about the same thing

[Meusli]

He is probably saying that it should be Multithreading enabled as you can no longer buy single core cpus.

[Feuerfalke]

You mean hyperthreading enabled.

We can't enable multithreading. Unless you already hacked the code, that is.

[TheEditor]

On Topic....

The question is if hyperthreading's "yes but not so much" worth $100?
I'm guessing that your looking between the 2500k and the 2600k right?

[Feuerfalke]

I'll tell you in 10 days.

Doesn't make any sense to buy a new machine before the first tests.

[TheEditor]

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

I'll tell you in 10 days.

Doesn't make any sense to buy a new machine before the first tests.

true that! Let other people be the guinea pigs.

[JAMF]

And "taking advantage" of HT is very close in meaning to "make use", so taking the answer of Mr. Maddox literally, you get "CoD makes use of HT, but not much.".

A question along the lines of "Does CoD get a performance boost when HT is enabled?" could have resulted in a more useful answer. If the answer to that question would have been "not much", you would have at least known you'd get a 1% benefit or more.

If I'm playing devil's advocate too much in your eyes, I'm sorry. I just think it's important to not read too much into the information we're given and don't see things that aren't there.

Originally Posted by TheEditor

I'm guessing that your looking between the 2500k and the 2600k right?

Yes, but I guess I'll go for the 2600k anyway. The question was not only my personal interest and it was more to find out if the engine supports new technologies. We'll see if the cores will be busy or not.
If not, then it's definately Oleg's engine that isn't up to the hardware and not the other way around.

[simace]

Originally Posted by Osprey

Can you even buy a single core these days?

Originally Posted by Hecke

Perhaps, but what does that have to do with this topic?

Originally Posted by Feuerfalke

I wondered about the same thing

Um...duh...

If you can't buy a single-core processor, the OP question is pointless to ask.

[EAF92_Brigstock]

Chances are you'll get 8 cores looking busy, whether it gives you any performance boost over a 2500k with 4 cores looking busy will only show in benchies of both chips.