Hyper-Threading is a technology which was introduced by Intel in 2002 for their Xeon server CPUs, but later this becomes a common feature for consumer CPUs as well.
But these days, there is news about CPU vulnerabilities and scaring a lot of users. Almost, every second guy is asking: What is hyper-threading technology? Do I need hyper-threading? and Does hyper-threading increase performance?
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So here is the clear answer.
No, unless you are doing any secret mission job or working for the military. But for any safety reasons, yes, you can disable it.
Hyper-threading boosts about 10% to 15% performance by doubling the CPU cores (by enabling two virtual cores in single-core) and it is only useful when you are doing intensive tasks like video rendering, or live streaming while gaming.
Whenever you do multitasking, I mean to say heavy multitasking; hyper-threading makes the job easy by enabling extra virtual CPU cores.
For most tasks like basic office work, browsing the internet, streaming high-quality videos, etc. you hardly make any use of hyper-threading technology.
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