Does hyper threading make that much of a difference for productivity suites?

[jonnyyyl]

If a i5 6600k is overclocked to 4.3-.5ghz, even with no hyper threading, surely for office productivity items like office, would still see a performance boost?  vs say a i7 3xxxk?

[Max_Settings]

For MS Office, not at all unless you are doing some serious spreadsheet work. Even a dual core with no hyperthreading wouldn't even break a sweat in MS office. 

[ARikozuM]

Depends on the program itself. Autodesk prefers faster physical cores over slower, but more HT cores. Rendering prefers more cores until your frequency drops rendering those extra cores useless.

 

All in all, it depends on each program and how it has been designed.

[YedZed]

3 hours ago, Max_Settings said:

For MS Office, not at all unless you are doing some serious spreadsheet work. Even a dual core with no hyperthreading wouldn't even break a sweat in MS office. 

But like, 240 hertz text scrolling.

[ARikozuM]

3 minutes ago, Max_Settings said:

For MS Office, not at all unless you are doing some serious spreadsheet work. Even a dual core with no hyperthreading wouldn't even break a sweat in MS office. 

You should have seen my Powerpoints in the Sandy Bridge era! HDD's and CPU's were crying!

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

5 minutes ago, jonnyyyl said:

If a i5 6600k is overclocked to 4.3-.5ghz, even with no hyper threading, surely for office productivity items like office, would still see a performance boost?  vs say a i7 3xxxk?

Office? I guess if you're running dozens of scripts in Access...

[failblox]

You wouldn't see a noticeable performance difference in MS Office unless you're doing some serious number crunching.

[Jupsik]

2 hours ago, failblox said:

You wouldn't see a noticeable performance difference in MS Office unless you're doing some serious number crunching.

I can assure you that once a word document gets longer than 200 pages and has some tables in it, which are connected to excel, or if you're editing the document in track changes, a dual core is not nearly enough. After 400 pages MS word is just a piece of junk that eats up CPU power like crazy. Work laptop has an i5-6200U, (2C/4T at 2.3 - i know its a laptop but still) and simple typing pushes the cpu to about 40%, scrolling is around 80% and any formatting changes or show/hide track changes pushes it to 100% and freezes word for a while.

[jonnyyyl]

my i7 3770k is starting to die on me, because I don't have enough RAM (16GB is the limit on this build) and its getting a bit slow, even with a newly reinstalled OS. Heating is a problem. 

 

I'm thinking of moving to my gaming pc, a relatively new custom loop i5 6600k with 32GB of ram and 1080. (can play pubg better too!!)

 

Problem is that I've got a lot of other workstation applications open like brokerage/trading software, spreadsheets that arent crazy, but say 1000 rows x 50 columns, all running some sort of function and connected within the workbook and other financial models. Having a few of them opened at the same time can be something. 

 

I'm hoping to move to threadripper when the technology/clarity is better. For the next 12-18 months, and to not spend too much, I'm thinking of moving to my 6600k. Saves a lot of time to research a new build, and time to move everything too.