Quote Originally Posted by MaddMutt View Post
Thank You,

This is why I STATED earlier about all this knowledge you people on this forum are freely sharing

I do not have a Intel system in my house but at work when I go to set the affinity on a program, it is listed as CPU 0 through CPU 11. It does not make a distinction between a real core and a smt one. It looks as if I have 12 cores in my CPU.

For some of us that do not have the full grasp, you are willing to explain it instead of flaming us.

This is why I joined

MaddMutt
Win 7 and maybe Vista are aware of SMT. That means OS scheduler can take advantage when scheduling threads so that first it puts heavy ones to cores and then adds light ones to cores and SMT cores. Xp cant do that, basically that means Win7 can use SMT arch more efficiently.

Same could be done to BD. Depending on how Turbo works it could be best in games to put heaviest ones to other half of module and use other to run lighter threads.