Should Hyperthreading be on or off when rendering

[Edward Troxel]

I see no reason to not leave it on.

Edward Troxel

[Tyez]

Hey Craig,
Where do you see where Hyperthreading is on or off? I have this too but didn’t know you could just turn it off when you would like too?

[Craig Cooper]

Hyper threading is turned on or off in your CMOS configuration when the PC first switches on. Essentially it splits the CPU usage into 2 parts. It also splits your PC memory into 2 parts. So that you would have 2 CPU

[Anoni Moose]

Really shouldn’t much matter one way or another. The hyperthreading feature was more of a cosmetic feature than anything else done for marketing purposes to make people think they were getting what’s now called dual-core (before Intel actually had one — AMD was eating Intel’s lunch technology-wise for a few years). But due to reasons I won’t go into here, its effectiveness was only very slight at best. So it doesn’t really matter.