Processor question

[Googolplex]

plutomaniac already told you the differences.

A dual core CPU with HT has two real cores where each core has an additional "virtual" core. That means two real and two virtual cores. The operating system use it like a virtual quad core. In general the CPU can work more efficient, but when you run older games made for single tasks, it can slow down the performance, because of additional internal operations and the system sometimes can assign a task on a virtual core instead of a real core. But nevertheless it's better to have a CPU with HT instead without.

A real quad core is even better than a dual core with HT.

But a 1k laptop should have an Intel Core i7 which is a quad core with HT, that means virtual eight cores of total.


Your laptop should have at least:

- 17" Full-HD LED display
- Intel Core i7-4700MQ
- 8 GB RAM
- nVIDIA GeForce GTX 760M

Or this one:

- 17" Full-HD LED display
- AMD A10-5750M
- 8 GB RAM
- AMD Radeon HD 8970M (Between a GeForce GTX 770M and 780M)

The last one has a weaker CPU, but a faster graphics card. It's almost the fastest card you can get. But I prefer nVIDIA.