hyperthreading on my i3 4170

[silentwrathhh]

will hyperthreading increase performance in games on my i3 4170?

[Fasauceome]

In an extremely simple way, hyperthreading allows one core to act like 2 cores. that CPU has 2 cores, and hyperthreading allows it to "act like a quad core" which is why people say it's a 2 core, 4 thread CPU. A 2C/4T CPU is a lot better than a 2C/2T CPU

[Haro]

12 minutes ago, silentwrathhh said:

will

Short answer yes. 

Little bit longer answer. It basically allows each core to do more than one task at a time. HT won't beat real physically cores. But expect around 30% performance increase in most tasks. 

[Jurrunio]

Yes. It lets more tasks to be executed at the same time per core, especially helpful on CPUs with low core count in the first place

[RadiatingLight]

Yes.

 

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