Does the turbo boost feature & hyperthreading help in video games???

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I know the tubo boost feature makes one core a couple of + ghz on app that only requires one core so will it help in video games that only utlize one core & what about HT? it makes two cores at like four slower cores but does any of these two things help in video games?
 
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I agree. Turbo sure helps, because the core(s) that the game is actually using run faster. Hyperthreading is emulating more cores than the CPU actually has (usually 8 emulated cores running on 4 actual cores). These virtual cores do not have the performance of real cores, but they allow to utilize the existing real cores better and are therefore a performance improvement. The prerequisite, as CTurbo aptly said, is that the game is actually tying to use more than 4 cores, and he also correctly said that only few ones do (which is also a reason that his affirmations in other threads are wrong that 8-core-AMD-CPUs would perform similar to 4-core-Intel-CPUs in games, because these real cores are just as unused as the virtual hyperthreading...
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I agree. Turbo sure helps, because the core(s) that the game is actually using run faster. Hyperthreading is emulating more cores than the CPU actually has (usually 8 emulated cores running on 4 actual cores). These virtual cores do not have the performance of real cores, but they allow to utilize the existing real cores better and are therefore a performance improvement. The prerequisite, as CTurbo aptly said, is that the game is actually tying to use more than 4 cores, and he also correctly said that only few ones do (which is also a reason that his affirmations in other threads are wrong that 8-core-AMD-CPUs would perform similar to 4-core-Intel-CPUs in games, because these real cores are just as unused as the virtual hyperthreading cores).
 
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Turbo is s big plus for gaming, as the feature can br used to raise the speed of the cpu by +1ghz or more, it is not limited to just a few ghz if you set it up in the bios right. Hyperthreading is useless for games. In fact you can at times see a performamce jump in games if you disable hyperthreading all together on multi-core processors.
 
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