I just bought a quad core i7 processor with a total of 8 virtual cores. As this article indicates: http://www.techspot.com/review/320-civilization-v-performance/page12.html , Civ 5 doesn't seem to benefit from HT on quad core CPUs. From my limited knowledge of HT, I understand that each virtual core runs at about 65% of its original capacity which ends up being about 130% performance per core compared to an identical core without HT.
Since Civ 5 only uses 4 cores instead of 8, will turning off HT and hence allowing each core to run at 100% instead of 65% boost performance (assuming CPU bottleneck) and reduce turn-times?
Since Civ 5 only uses 4 cores instead of 8, will turning off HT and hence allowing each core to run at 100% instead of 65% boost performance (assuming CPU bottleneck) and reduce turn-times?