Hyperthread any good?

[kinofiron257]

My i3 works a charm, but I don't know what to think on getting a better cpu:

 

Core i5: Better but no Hyperthreading--- Cheap to get

 

Core i7: With Hyperthreading--- Too damn expensive...

 

 

i5 is easy to afford but it doesn't have any hyperthreading but I want hyperthreading.... What benefits will I get from this and what drawbacks will I get if not buying non hyperthread CPU.. Yes, the i3 also has Hyperthread stuff but I NEED MORE POWER.... BUrrrrrrrrrRRrrrrrrrRRRRRRRrrr....

 

And....... should I also upgrade my memory?

 

 

[DarrenP]

My i3 works a charm, but I don't know what to think on getting a better cpu:

 

Core i5: Better but no Hyperthreading--- Cheap to get

 

Core i7: With Hyperthreading--- Too damn expensive...

 

 

i5 is easy to afford but it doesn't have any hyperthreading but I want hyperthreading.... What benefits will I get from this and what drawbacks will I get if not buying non hyperthread CPU.. Yes, the i3 also has Hyperthread stuff but I NEED MORE POWER.... BUrrrrrrrrrRRrrrrrrrRRRRRRRrrr....

 

And....... should I also upgrade my memory?

Can we get full system specs?

[Kyuubixchidori]

Depends on what you want to do with it. For just gaming, I5 is just fine. I dont render, but I never max out my cpu. IT gets close, but never flat line it at 100%. now if you are going to do heavy video rendering, or anything like that, get a I7

[Cacao]

Can we get full system specs?

They are on his profile, it doesn't look to me like he needs a CPU upgrade

 

More like a 750ti/760/270x. 4770K + GT 630 would just be ridiculous. 

[Dredgy]

And what do you use your system for? ..if you run an i3 fine, then the chances of you needing a hyper threading i7 are next to none.

[Pokahontas]

for gaming that game is well threaded and use hyperthreading correctly ( crysis 3 sorta ) around 30% improvement

[smjpl]

i5 is easy to afford but it doesn't have any hyperthreading but I want hyperthreading....

 

How do you know you want something if you don't even know what it does? Do some research. People will be glad to help you but it always helps if you do some background research first. You will learn more yourself that way as well.

 

PS,  the gist of it is, if you only play games and stuff you don't need HT (no benefit right now, maybe in a few years).

[SeanAngelo]

if you're gonna just play games, then an i5 is good enough. if you render and multi task and all that stuff, then hyperthreading will come in use

[Enderman]

no benefit in gaming from hyperthreading

when i upgraded from my i5 2500K to a i7 3770K i actually lost a bit of performance because basically the cores are split in 2 for hyperthreading

since games use very few threads, it is better to have no hyperthreading and more performance per core

 

i did notice a huge improvement in rendering tho, as all 8 threads get used

overall, if youre just playing games there is no reason to get an i7

[tobben]

a proper i5 is plenty fast for gaming applications, hyperthreading is only beneficial for tasks where the cpu knows what's coming, the work is already predetermined, aka editing/rendering and other similar applications, that is however not the case with gaming, it never knows what's going to be thrown at it, hyperthreading yields no benefit in gaming so no point in spending money on it if thats what your planning to do.

[jj509]

a proper i5 is plenty fast for gaming applications, hyperthreading is only beneficial for tasks where the cpu knows what's coming, the work is already predetermined, aka editing/rendering and other similar applications, that is however not the case with gaming, it never knows what's going to be thrown at it, hyperthreading yields no benefit in gaming so no point in spending money on it if thats what your planning to do.

 

Bascially this. Games don't get much of a benifit from hyperthreading. Only a small percentage. That being said I have two gaming rigs. One with an i5 and a LAN rig with an i3. My LAN rig with the i3 can do everything my main rig can do at 1080P. No performace loss of any significance between the rigs. If anything spend your money on a better GPU and see the performance increase.

[kinofiron257]

Can we get full system specs?

intel i3 4130

asus h81-mk

4gb ddr3

gigabyte gt 630

500 gb seagate barracuda

[kinofiron257]

Ok thanks for the answers and suggestion! Got the idea now! And next I will do some background research.

[bluepoodleguy]

Hyperthreading is useful only if the application is written to take advantage of it. Multiple cores are useful even if the application is not multiple core aware if you are multitasking since modern OSes can use mulitple cores to multitask even with programs that are not multiple core aware. Damn thats a lot of multis in one sentence.