FrozenSilent
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Hi,
Today I was looking around the forums being a new member and all and I saw a topic that sparked my interest in Hyperthreading.
So I searched hyper threading on wikipedia and apparently it can improve the performance of your processor by 15~30%! WOW, that's quite a bit of extra FPS in gaming.
Sweet. So I was wondering if my Intel Core 2 Duo which already has 2 REAL cores could be hyper threaded to like 4 cores? I saw in another thread that intel i7 which has 4 real cores can hyper thread to 8 cores? So can I double my cores and increase performance by 15% without harming my processor? If so how? And what program do I use? I heard my friend hyperthreaded his Intel pentium processor by himself (No not pentium D) with some random program. He said it sucked and there was barely any performance but I'd like to give it a try for myself. Much help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-FrozenSilent
Today I was looking around the forums being a new member and all and I saw a topic that sparked my interest in Hyperthreading.
So I searched hyper threading on wikipedia and apparently it can improve the performance of your processor by 15~30%! WOW, that's quite a bit of extra FPS in gaming.
According to Intel the first implementation only used 5% more die area than the comparable non-hyperthreaded processor, but the performance was 15–30% better.
Sweet. So I was wondering if my Intel Core 2 Duo which already has 2 REAL cores could be hyper threaded to like 4 cores? I saw in another thread that intel i7 which has 4 real cores can hyper thread to 8 cores? So can I double my cores and increase performance by 15% without harming my processor? If so how? And what program do I use? I heard my friend hyperthreaded his Intel pentium processor by himself (No not pentium D) with some random program. He said it sucked and there was barely any performance but I'd like to give it a try for myself. Much help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
-FrozenSilent