Guild Wars 2

I have an i7 2600K and I’m not sure whether I want HT enabled or disabled for maximum performance in GW2. For the purposes of this post, GW2 is the only thing that my PC ever runs, any other function outside of GW2 is irrelevant.

Some people say GW2 is very CPU-bound, but makes good use of many cores.

Some people say it’s CPU-bound, but is only ever using 3 cores max.

Some people say that turning HT off gives better FPS, some say that on is the way forward.

So, Tech Support, which is it to be? On or Off?

Does anyone have some half-decent benchmarks showing any performance change?

HT should be off all the time if u use that i7 for games only, it helps a bit, if u use it for video encode or 3d rendering just leave it on, but make sure u unpark ur CPU cores. Google “core parking” and learn how to unpark ur cores in w7 or w8.
HT on or off shouldn’t affect the game performance at all just make sure if u leave it on u unpark ur CPU, this is only because windows is a kittenty OS and it cannot properlly adress the tasks on the CPU efficientlly, u must turn that option off in order to force the OS to ultilize ur CPU at it full potential all the time basically.

as Rampage said, turn it off, unless you’re doing high performance videoediting or laser shows.

with HT off, your CPU produces less heat and may save you up to 0,5v too.
in other words: more OC potential.