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  • It won’t hurt you if you try. Windows comes with all the drivers for the basic functionality. Just backup your data before trying. If it boots, then go in and uninstall all the AMD stuff. If it doesn’t or you see horrible performance issues then you’ll need to reinstall windows.

    Windows naturally has the basic drivers ready to use any CPU. For example, I have an Intel system and never had AMD, yet the AMD K8 processor driver and AMD processor drivers among other AMD drivers by Microsoft are there and ready to go when needed.









  • Hyperthreading sounds like you’re splitting a core into two and run two tasks in parallel but actually they are taking turns.

    If we look more closely, the case is that if we said a core has 100 time slots to execute a task per second, and the task only takes up 60 time slots per second, that’s 40 time slots wasted when the core is doing nothing at all. Hyperthreading lets a second task fill up those empty time slots to make more efficient use of the core.

    The two tasks are taking turns executing on that one core in very tiny time frames, but it brings more performance because otherwise the core would be left doing nothing most of the time. This happens as naturally tasks often require waiting on data from other threads or even external sources to become available for the next calculations.