Will disabling hyperthreading on my notebook increase gaming performance?

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StayGoldSon

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I'm a huge fan of Battlefield (since 1942) and i'm just curious if disabling hyperthreading on my notebook will increase framerate? Right now i'm playing BF4 on low with an average of 35 - 40 FPS, I ran BF3 at around 50 - 60 FPS on low as well (college, desktop is at home)

I usually tend to run most games quite well 60+FPS on high settings on the notebook (Bioshock, etc.) but I know some games don't utilize hyper threading.

Another quick question how exactly would I disable hyperthreading? No options in my BIOS, here are my specs.

Intel Core i5 3210m 2.50Ghz.
Nvidia Geforce GT630M 2GB
8GB RAM.
Win.7 Home Premium (64 bit)
HP Pavillion DV6 Notebook
 
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In the mobile space, core i5's are dual core, hyperthreaded cpu's. So they have 2 cores and 4 logical processors (threads).

Do not disable hyperthreading. It will only hurt performance. If a game is only optimized for 2 threads, then only 2 threads will be used. The other two threads will be left to do other background tasks.

Edit: For reference. In mobile cpu's: core i3's are 2 core/2 threads. Core i5's are 2 core/4 threads. Core i7's are usually 4 core/8 threads, but can be 2 core/4 thread (these are clocked higher).
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I just read that there are some i5 dual cores with hyperthreading that were made specifically and only for laptops. Maybe he has one of those.

Which i5 do you have?

 
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In the mobile space, core i5's are dual core, hyperthreaded cpu's. So they have 2 cores and 4 logical processors (threads).

Do not disable hyperthreading. It will only hurt performance. If a game is only optimized for 2 threads, then only 2 threads will be used. The other two threads will be left to do other background tasks.

Edit: For reference. In mobile cpu's: core i3's are 2 core/2 threads. Core i5's are 2 core/4 threads. Core i7's are usually 4 core/8 threads, but can be 2 core/4 thread (these are clocked higher).
 
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Who were you asking when you said "Which i5 do you have?"
 
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Dleslie212

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The OP.

Fuda - don't forget the i7s with 6 core /12 thread!! :)
 
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