@Metroid
Yeah it has a small effect on newer intel's, I believe it to be mostly a os scheduling issue.
Take windows for ex., there's times were it will lock on a single task, and make you wait on window handles and other interrupt types.
Been that way since we had dual cores, if you guys want better smt perf, it's not necessarily the games fault, but most likely the os.
It's something I've been watching for the last year on linux, it's still a mess really.
Windows doesn't generally bounce the threads around as much (losing context and cache by doing so).
But there's definitely times where it screws up because it's not a true multi tasking os.
5% is normal in my opinion, because that's probably about around what I've seen on my ivy-e.
What's more worth it?, %5 or 45%... (45% going for stuff like cinebench with smt on)
One issue on my intel though is if you hammer the crap out of the cpu, all threads, it'll stutter everything.
That was in windows though, haven't messed with that in linux, I generally try to stay around 80% max or so.
I noticed the other day my cpu usage wasn't that high when gaming so it's all good
(I need a new vga card though so who knows).
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