Can hyper threading take away from gaming?

[Hydrogen1803]

I was thinking of buying an Intel Core i7 4790k for my gaming build. I know that is not needed, but I would like to do other heavy work on it. I know a huge benefit of an i7 is hyperthreading, and that this feature does not help much with gaming, but I'd like to know, does it take away from gaming performance, or just leave it as it is. All help is appreciated, thank you. 

[Aytex]

rendering/editing it helps

[AresKrieger]

No, it just isn't utilized while gaming, and works more so for a multi task enviroment, btw the 4790k is really good for a higher end gaming rig 

[EllieThePurpleFuzzy]

Maybe in future games might be optimized to benefit from HT but it doesnt seem so at the moment, though for heavy work and content creation then yeah i7's are good .

 

Just think of an i7 as an i5 with extra ketchup :3.

[Universal_Cereal_Bus]

I mean in theory- it actually decreases performance overall... But increases mult threaded application performance- because its easier to jump from one task to the other when you're putting half the effort. So yes in theory you'd get like a 1% benefit out of it- but most games are multi threaded these days- and you have hundreds of threads running on your computer anyways- its not like your game is the only thread running.

 

So no- its *MOSTLY* a moot point, more likely to get performance by oc gpu or cpu.

[theninja35]

I think Arma 3 has an option that will enable hyperthreading usage which may increase performance.

[The Official Czex]

I was thinking of buying an Intel Core i7 4790k for my gaming build. I know that is not needed, but I would like to do other heavy work on it. I know a huge benefit of an i7 is hyperthreading, and that this feature does not help much with gaming, but I'd like to know, does it take away from gaming performance, or just leave it as it is. All help is appreciated, thank you. 

 

It will outperform all i5 CPUs in literally any task. But if you want the best gaming performance out of your chip, just disable hyperthreading in the BIOS. Yes, you can disable hyperthreading for higher overclocking potential.