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When I bought my current desktop the two CPUs I was looking at were the i7-9700K and i9-9900K. This was the generation where intel went from 6 cores with HT to
by duffyjp 4y ago
When I bought my current desktop the two CPUs I was looking at were the i7-9700K and i9-9900K. This was the generation where intel went from 6 cores with HT to 8 cores w/o HT for the i7. The i9 has 8 cores with HT.
I liked the idea of the i7 because without HT you have a real picture of how utilized your CPU is. If it says 100% on a core it's 100%. I ended up going with the i9 though when a promotion was too good to pass up.
When I got it I ran Cinebench both with and without HT enabled in the BIOS and it made a decent impact so I left it on.