i7 not worth of for gaming?

[atpbx]

^^

This has been written in lots of places. By reviews, I mean any user review or comments on the game too, and there have been lots of complaints about BF3 having problems with hyperthreading enabled.

2600k, and no problems with hyper threading.

There is a thread on this already.

 

[wannabedamned]

Microstutter is pretty much always there, but some people don't notice it. Perhaps it's the same thing here? But as regards to why HT creates a problem, I'm just speculating.

Thats not the case, It's none existant on some HT enabled systems, and yet there on others. To be honest the problem is so hit and miss, its possibly more down to the way the motherboard handles HT, rather than the processor and HT itself. because its the only variable factor that would touch HT. Outside of the processor and the game.

 

[bfar]

i7860 to i52500k here, so I lost hyper threading. From a gaming point of view it's worth nothing.

If you put your PC to hours of encoding/folding/rendering then it might be worth the extra few quid. I remember a lynnfield review a while back which claimed that the non-HT i5s caught up with the HT-enabled i7s with a one or two hundred mhz overclock in highly threaded apps.

 

[Rroff]

It can quite easily affect some systems and not others depending on configuration and useage of the system for instance if one user has a background task that needs a fair bit of CPU time while playing BF3 it could be causing inefficent useage of threading due to HT whereas another user with a different software setup might not be seeing the same scenario and its perfectly smooth and so on.