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Should I disable hyperthreading in an Intel CPU?

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Mar 15, 20266198 views
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I have a laptop with Intel i5 M430 2.27GHz. The CPU has TWO REAL cores but it also has some kind of virtualization so Windows sees it as 4-core. In a REAL dual core CPU, a single threaded program will run in a single core at 2.27GHz. Right? My question is, in my 4-core CPU, the same program runs at…

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You have a CPU with hyperthreading technology. You can't change this, but don't worry, you won't have any performance loss; actually it increases your system's performance. Note that the CPU clock is not equal to CPU performance. The clock is not di…

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