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I bought a non K CPU (without hyper threading) , If I would have bought the K version and later Intel announces "disable the hyperthreads to be 100% safe" I wou
by simion314 7y ago
I bought a non K CPU (without hyper threading) , If I would have bought the K version and later Intel announces "disable the hyperthreads to be 100% safe" I would not be happy, even if I am 99.99% safe with HT on, (I personally did not enable or disable any security thing, I run the Ubuntu defaults).
IMO Intel customers should not be indifferent, what you thought you bought was not what you got latter, you lost performance and you have to do advanced stuff to disable the security patches and be unsafe
Edit:
My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused(my i5 is a K CPU 6th gen).
- jefft255 7y agoThe K thing is about overclockability, not HT.
- makomk 7y agoYeah. As the article says, losing hyperthreading effectively downgrades your Core i7 to a Core i5, since (depending on generation) that's one of the main differences between the two processor series.
- gsnedders 7y agoAs of the 9th generation, Core i7 doesn't have hyperthreading.
- sq_ 7y agoIs it possible they're talking about a chip where the K version had hyperthreading but the lower end of that line didn't? Haven't kept up on Intel well enough for the last two years or so to be sure, but I seem to remember there being a generation where that happened.
- simion314 7y agoMy bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused.
- onli 7y agoWhich processor did you buy where the K version has hyperthreading and the non-K does not? I don't think that distinction exists in any Intel cpu generation. K just means unlocked and sometimes a higher clock, it says nothing about hyperthreading.