🔧 Using HALF of your CPU can INCREASE your FPS! (Lower temps, Power & Latency) ✅

[@johnarvanitis9328]

Turning off Hyperthreading in BIOS is not a good call. You will have performance gains in games but you're losing performance in everything else you do on your PC. Best way to do this is with Process Lasso and Disabling SMT per program in the CPU Affinity settings.

[@Parky_T]

Came here to say this. Process Lasso is free anyway

[@Panjno]

Totally agree, but some may want to just go all out for gaming - thats why i featured both options here :)

[@Parky_T]

@@Panjno while that's a fair point, where is your evidence that this improves gaming performance across the board? At least with process lasso you are only disabling SMT at an application level instead of OS level.

[@Yennork]

@@Parky_T watch the rest of his videos to get the proper experience he is providing for us

[@wolfookamikun]

So, my BIOS doesn't have Hyperthreading on the list, can also disable SMT in any games by using Process Lasso, right?

[@onlinetutorials1]

Thanks Panjino for your tutorials. I watched all of your low-end pc optimization tutorials and went from 15 fps to 60 fps, on my low-end PC. And went from 500 fps to 530 fps on my high-end PC. Disabling most of the background processes can increase performance and reduce lag.

[@Kiszak94]

🧢

[@abhirupkundu2778]

🧢

[@georget.1023]

Been having thermal and fps issues on my laptop and this was a welcome boost, 50 more fps on valorant, and it doesn't drop below 100 anymore. I love all of your tutorials, they have been great. Thanks!

[@FriendlyPCGamers]

Good luck running on Single Core... cpu wont last long..

[@georget.1023]

@@FriendlyPCGamers that is not at all what this is, and completely not true

[@FriendlyPCGamers]

@@georget.1023 You are stressing one single core permanently, disabling the boost cores/performance cores. If having single core only was a better solutions, Intel/AMD had been one of biggest idiot tech companies till date, working on performance cores and multi cores. Why Dual Core, Core 2 duo were invented idk then.

[@georget.1023]

@@FriendlyPCGamers that is not what it does.... it reduces the cores used by half. Not down to 1. I do not have a 2 core cpu, I have an 8 core. So it uses 4 cores instead. Not 1. My thermals have literally gone down since I enabled this feature. The only bad thing about the feature is that My computer cant run 2 games at once very easily. But that is fine because I only play 1 game 99% of the time.

[@FriendlyPCGamers]

@@georget.1023 What are you talking? If you set CPU Affinity to CORE 0 and disable all other CORE 1-XX What does it mean? For a specific program you are only allowing 1 CORE to be active. Also, Multi threading means more than 2. disabling multi-threading means disabling more than 2 atleast. You are saying, reducing core by half, so if my initial cores are 8. it reduces by 4, rest left enabled 4 are still MULTI Cores, neither single, dual or tri.... Neither literature wise, not scientifically, or mathematically you are satisfying me right now. Thx

[@Zen-bn2qi]

I was just trying out a game and was standing still looking at a wall, went from 280 fps to 411 fps from turning off SMT in Process Lasso. Didn't actually think it could've been a big performance difference from it being on and off. Tysm for this

[@ira-dr6cs]

what is your cpu?

[@bigjerome-wz4uo]

What cpu do you have

[@noodlejutsu]

For anyone trying to do this for fortnite, sadly cpu affinity and priority can't be changed in project lasso (for most) because of EAC (aka Easy Anti-Cheat). You have two options, disable hyperthreading in the bios, or use the "cpu sets" feature of project lasso which instead of enforcing the behavior strongly suggests the program to use the specified cores. Only problem is... it's behind a pay wall for project lasso. It does improve frame drops noticably though (especially oddly when in windowed fullscreen on my pc). Hope this helps

[@meme-zf7ew]

change cpu affinity of the epic games launcher to what you want and it will automatically change to fortnite

[@alchemystn2o]

OMG!!! By doing this for Starfield, my 5800X3D's temp from 65-75 C to 55-65 C. TYVM!

[@MushrromKid]

Bro, NGL you make the best optimization videos. Thanks You, May God Bless You!

[@Panjno]

thank you!

[@itucktv3219]

swear to god ! i stopped watching LE Stripez because of this man . and cause i gave le stripes a optimization nd simple asked to be credited for it and he made a video 24hrs later using and saying everything i left n his comments . that dudes a douche bag and his optimizations suck tbh my cpu always wud stutter no matter what

[@sylakosman-7100]

Panjno can you make a video for cpu overclocking btw love the video best youtuber out there for pc optimizations etc

[@marcuszettergren8885]

Great video on a very hot topic lately. This all depends on the game. A game can be very cpu hungry even with SMT, and a game can be very cpu hungry on a per core level, just like Tarkov is with Unity. However, you are unfortunatly benchmarking Tarkov where one of very few places that is GPU hungry, namely Factory or Labs. Instead, run Lighthouse in an online match, and preferably below 1440p. This is the true cpu core performance test.

[@PeterJonesGolf]

do you have any insight on this wipes performance drop for tarkov. I hope for a patch that could fix my issues but that could be a long wait

[@ThomasJerkins]

Worked like a charm. I also put my Nvidia scaling to Balanced. I tried Performance, but the colors were too light. So I took about a 10 FPS hit moving it from performance to balanced. I'll take that any day of the week. I'm averaging 148 FPS

[@DXNAST]

It's always good to see a new Panjno video!

[@Itz_JxJo]

thanks this really helped my i5 7200u laptop boost fps with hyperthreading off, keep it up🔥👍

[@pixelhunter5709]

This is pure fire, thanks !

[@FAKExCrazy]

Process lasso made my fps smoother and made my gpu cooler, thanks for the vid

[@erichazlinsky7719]

That Guy Thanks, I will look into it later.

[@DrTopLiftDPT]

Doing this the task manager example was bad. Frames went from 165-175 stable to 80-160 all over the place. Did not work for me . Tested In speedball custom game MW 19

[@wood6454]

This helped me improve my game by a lot! Thanks so much.

[@hendriksteenkamp8809]

Thanks man.... Like you were reading my mind... Was looking for this...

[@ff-py6is]

TNice tutorials tutorial was so easy to understand. Thank you so much!

[@lofigamervibes]

Sooooo, this is seriously, like the best channel on all of KZbin. That is all. And thank you.

[@ameerchehab]

Thanks for the video, and indeed turning of the hyperthreading from bios on my 12900h cpu asus laptop with 3070ti mobile increased my fps from about 176 to 204fps in warzone fortunes keep map on 1080p low settings dlss performance.

[@RAWTAGSFXT]

Great video, just curious if this will have a negative impact on online gaming?

[@Panjno]

depending on the game and your specs ect, you could see an FPS increase (all games i benchmarked in this video are online games)

[@RAWTAGSFXT]

@@Panjno thanks for the quick reply, that’s definitely put my mind at ease 👍🏾

[@nigelphillips7454]

@@Panjno hi is there away to make less cpu cores use more cpu my laptop is 10 cores and only 1.7ghz locked cpu so i wanted to make only 4 of the cores use all the cpu i know it sounds weird please reply me asap if dont understand me let me know thanks

[@tiagoveiga7898]

@Panjno windows 11 or 10. Which one is better for gaming?

[@jacquessteyn102]

Hi Panjno, I have Ryzen 5 3600Ghz 6core and 12 Logical process, do you suggest to turn off the SMT or not?

[@infinitegaming.17]

By disabling hyperthreadings of cpu in bios will affects your games usage so if you turned off the threads then your in games usage might be high as compare to normal so turning off cpu threads is not a good choice for your games performance as well as your pc also

[@AzamKhan-yc4lc]

Always helpful Panjno!

[@tachometer-flac]

Went from 98C to 56C. Frame Rate is the same. Disabled both Hyperthreading and Turbo Boost. Got to find what works for you. Downside, game takes a little longer to load.

[@primosaiz]

Not good for AAA games tho. But good for lower end games.

[@abhirupkundu2778]

doesn't work with spider man PC and rdr2

[@AlexanderPrio]

SMT is good in some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 because the game needs a minimum of 8 or more threads. I've experienced bad stuttering with my ryzen 5 with 6 cores and 6 threads, and after enabling SMT the stuttering disappeared. SMT is the great thing on CPUs with less then 8 cores and 8 threads, in some games you will have 2 to 10% lower FPS but a good and stable experience, so is up to you if you want to sacrifice it or not.

[@jksb4172]

Panjno do you have a FPS boost in Escape from tarkov? I have 1060 6gb with very low fps per game like 45-65 max, can you help with that? Thanks for the videos.

[@1luisss]

So if i habe 6 cores and 12 logical processors u wouldn‘t recommend to turn hyperthreading off? Cause i can‘t get any benefits latency/fps wise?

[@ohhyperr7]

So I saw a similar boost in valorant like you did, about 15-30fps, but what about fortnite? There is a setting in fortnite called multithreaded rendering is that the same thing you are disabling in this tutorial?

[@louisvandenbergh1828]

If you kept it going till now you have all the respect that I can give

[@Sim737Pilot]

SPECS: i7-8700K, RTX2080, 32GB DDR6, 2TB M.2 drive. RESULTS: FPS didn't change. CPU ran 2C cooler and 4GB ram usage were saved. Overall, no noticeable performance improvement in XP11.

[@JAH______]

maybe because you have a high end pc your fps wont increase by alot by stuff like this

[@marvingordon7121]

​@@JAH______high end? 😅

[@goranstojanov1160]

You didint say anything about people who have lover than i5 and if we should tyr this method. 2:02 I have 2 Cores and 4 Logical processors. Should i follow this step or avoid it? I also have that Virtualization Disabled and somethig called Hyper-V support:Yes wich i see you dont have.

[@monfrezo]

It benefits my i9 10900f having HT off, since csgo is a single-core demanding game and HT off improces single-core performance, if u have any cpu lower than i7 i would suggest keeping HT on. I only play csgo, so for me its okay having HT off, but if i was playing heavily multithreaded games like COD MW2 or typically newer 3d games, my pc would suffer in those games having HT off

[@داني961]

i have a question i have a ryzen7 5800h gaming laptop and they said that ryzen should have smt enabled do i use it off or on??

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

4c 8t is fine if you can optimize windows and willing to close apps before playing games, otherwise just simply more cores the benefits are way higher than the cost of upgrading

[@seth_brougher]

Is this still good if you have a bad GPU? I have a 1650 super

[@kevnik-us8ub]

tysm ur channel is saving me

[@varnavasgaming3968]

i will check it this today and i will come back with more info if it is work or not chears amazing video again panjno :)

[@stefanjakobsen6038]

How did it work :)

[@varnavasgaming3968]

@@stefanjakobsen6038 what you mean ?

[@harrisdim9433]

Thanks for the videos really helps ,quick question,having i5 12600kf is better switching off from bios or with process lasso?(because having 10 cores and 10 logical processors will not be that bad).Also I ask this for general tasks not only games.Thank you!.

[@arkhamknight616]

I personally tried disabling smt on my ryzen 5 ..I saw an increase in fps on fortnite from and average of 180fps to 270...its quite the jump but my cpu utilization was pegged at 90%...a very solid experience but I have reverted to hyperthreading mode again now...

[@itsAwake]

@@arkhamknight616 Why?

[@arkhamknight616]

@@itsAwake although it was quite a significant boost...I didn't like maxing out my CPU...plus it used to cause stutters abit more frequently...

[@ilovehotdogs125790]

@@arkhamknight616 maybe because it’s a ryzen 5. Only 6 cores.. with an 8 core cpu it should be perfect. Like even a 9700k might be really good.

[@angeloschaloulis1394]

Hello, I tried this on Spiderman remastered and miles morales with a gaming laptop with i9-13980hx CPU and actually it got a bit worse, especially on Spiderman remastered which from 50% CPU usage went to 25% and both fps and 1% Lows went worse by a bit (5 average fps and 6-7 in 1% Lows) and in spiderman miles morales the average fps was a little lower (few fps) but 1% lows were worse (like 10fps) Is this normal in those games ? Should I try them in other games? Or did I do something wrong ?

[@jerryk7862]

what about 2 cores and 4 logical processors Processor Intel Core i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, 2592 Mhz Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 what should i do about hyperthreading on or off and Threaded Optimization on, off or auto ?

[@jameelal-quraishi5802]

you are a legend and helpful great content like always keep it raining

[@girthyrichar6947]

Should i have virtualization turned on? I have an i5 7500 @ 3.41 GHZ

[@ConorX3m]

how effective it can be to turn off half of the physical cores in a laptop to increase cpu frequency? Can i see stable maximum frequency 5ghz, if i limit cpu cores ryzen 7 to 6cores/12theads, it 2.5 times less

[@akosbalog9523]

I can't sleep my pc after this setting. Why? How I can sleep my pc again? Pls help me!

[@aymanmannasaheb1319]

I have i7-1165g7. its 4 cores and 8 processes and 16gb of ram. any optimizations you would recommend

[@Sinariun]

I have i3 13100 4core 8threads recommended to turn it off?

[@xd4ny777]

Hey Panjno, I have a Ryzen 5 2600x with 6 cores and 12 threads, should I disable SMT?

[@flowerfang3140]

cores and threads what I dont get cause differences still, I was about to ask the same thing.

[@Senate9]

i have a i5 11400 cpu with 6 cores so i should keep my Hyper threading turned on i take it?

[@multitrader772]

I have i9 10900k 3200mhz 32gb 1ssd970pro and 3090 not hitting 200 fps on warzone and used to get more. My monitor is 240hrz. Where can I get more fps??

[@GridNomofTheShyulk]

Hello, should I turn off Intel virtualization and Vt-d as well in the BIOS? Will it affect gaming performance?

[@Y3ZFLY]

Yes turn it off as it is not used in gaming or any other usual tasks

[@tesla_vfx]

Hi, Panj. Can you make a video about CPU Bottleneck? It annoys me so much especially when I play Valorant. The game stutters and lags so much. It shows that CPU Usage is 100%, but GPU Usage is 40-60%. I watched a bunch of videos but nothing changed

[@natmat2329]

close apps

[@KAZIO_SAIKO]

Same here bro

[@DEANluxray]

Try increasing your graphic settings so it shifts some of the processing to your GPU. That being said Valorant is CPU intensive game. So you would expect the game to utilise CPU more especially on all low settings.

[@Panjno]

what CPU, RAM (Speed and how many sticks) and GPU?

[@KAZIO_SAIKO]

@@Panjno i 5 2500 ,2stickes of 4 gb and gtx750ti

[@DaniyalKhanWrites100]

panjno i disabled hyperthreading on my laptop and i reacived a really good boost in fps but my game had a wierd delay while moving around when i left the W key my character still be moving and my mouse was not moving properly so should i use process lasso

[@elpra3893]

If I have 8 Core - 16 logical ? Is recommended turn of SMT ?

[@SportsNerdsGaming]

Hey is Mem Reduct a good program to run? An if so can I run it with Process Lasso and Intelligent Standby List Cleaner enabled

[@MikeRetroModz]

So if I have a RTX 2070 laptop with a i7 10th gen with 6 cores I shouldnt do that?

[@doomenjoyer8815]

Yo when’s the new warzone vid coming out? ❤️

[@naikz187war4]

i have improved input latency and all my games are performing better with HT off except Assasins creed Valhalla. Fps much lower on Valhalla with it off but input latency much better. i7 4790k Rx 6600 ddr3 1600Mhz 32Gb Ram. Games,, Apex Legends, Warframe, Miles Morales Spiderman, Hogwarts Legacy, Far cry Primal, 5 and New Dawn. Dying Light 2, Control, Red Dead Redemption 2

[@Shpoofy_]

If your cpu usage is already at 25-35% does this do anything

[@literallysan]

Hey mr.. Can you upload a fully optimizition for The cycle frontier please?

[@mattdoespushups2350]

QUESTION PANJNO do i have to turn off multithread rendering ingame also to get this to work???

[@kevnik-us8ub]

tysm this helped alot

[@seuu.]

sooo, i had a bit of input lag and stuttering issues, disabled SMT in BIOS .. boom : games run smooth for me

[@mdostt]

Ok what if I have 6 Cores but 12 Logical processors? Turn on HT or not?

[@billyhammons2494]

2:40 he explains. But test for yourself. Disable from task manager. Launch a game. If it didn't improve anything, restart your pc and it'll be reenabled. If you noticed an improvement enable using lasso for a more permanent fix.

[@ProtoType4588]

@@billyhammons2494 restart your hole pc to have it reenabled if done by task manager lol you just have to restart the game and its enabled again

[@icecantgaming944]

Bro! My cpu is u series cpu and it bottleneck my gpu so hard that fps is around 20-30 only and both gpu cpu or even ram utilization is not maxed out yet. How to improve?

[@yfrik2050]

Sorry i really need ask someone. If i have laptop with 4 cores and 8 logocal processors i will get fps boost if i off Hyper Threading?

[@Tellephone26]

thanks went from 80 fps to 10

[@Zxxyn22]

Lmao

[@docn1ght]

FR

[@noelperez6626]

Thats good or bad?

[@WeldedDifff]

@@noelperez6626its wonderful

[@notblazedfordays9536]

😆. He does say to try it and it’s not gonna work for everyone… clearly… 😆

[@youham7066]

Should I undervolt, lower cores, turn off hyperthreading to my ryzen 7700?😢

[@aaronjones4529]

The Ryzen 7700 is an 8 core CPU so, yes you should disable SMT for gaming ... Also increase tdp to 125W and set a Curve Optimiser -ve offset (CO -30 is usually fine) SMT disabled will improve average FPS a little in some games, and will typically improve the 1% lows even more in those same games... Other games won't see any difference, and there's even a couple that would perform better with SMT enabled (RDR2 for example, I think, scales with more than 8 available logical cores... As a side note, CP2077 with the latest update says it's using all 16 cores with SMT enabled, but it doesn't actually get any more FPS than with just 8 cores)... For what it's worth, the overall gains from SMT disabled are better than any gains from SMT enabled. Contrary to popular beliefs, SMT disabled is also generally snappier within windows in general toi, because latency is reduced... It's also worth noting that Windows is a bit crap (cos its windows) and you get the best gains from disabling SMT and then doing a fresh install of windows... If you enable SMT, Windows installs/makes changes to it's scheduler that slightly increase latency. When you then disable SMT afterwards, those scheduler changes are not removed/uninstalled/disabled from Windows and it continues to have that performance hit.

[@secondgenlife7785]

what if the game is cpu bound wouldnt that give worse fps

[@kevinpaskevicius1643]

Am I doing something wrong? When turning off the hyper threading my game stutters for Modern Warfare.

[@fonosolutuions7391]

+In the setup +inthesetup I am getting a long drawn out static-like soft when I try to listen to the GMS setupe, doing EXACTLY what you

[@Aronss]

I reckon this isn’t good to do if you stream and game on the same pc? I have a ryzen 7 5800x btw.

[@TheVVumpus]

Where in the hell is the PANJ Ultimate FPS increase link in your Subnautica Dramatically Increase Performance video?? It's been missing for 6 months...

[@TvHamie]

Thanks For The video Panjo. But this settings changes made My cpu go from 40% to 70-80 just playing The game.

[@PlanetMarzz]

Does this have a negative impact on streaming???

[@gamesturbator]

I thought SMT was for enabling software like Virtual Box or Bluestacks 5 in Windows. Now that I know what SMT is, what IS the setting called to turn on virtualization? I have an Aorus Master x570/ Thanks.

[@euphoria9696]

best way to do this is just go to system config in windows ~ Boot tab ~ advanced options ~ number of processors checked and disable 2 cores x 2 threads.

[@2007excalibur2007]

this doesn't work, because if you disable the cores this way, then for example if you have a quad-core Intel with HT (so 4x2 = 8 logical cores), and you give 4 for number of processors, then you'll be left with 2 real cores and 2 HT cores. For every real core the system has, Windows will iterate through the HT cores first before going iterating to the next real core - this is why when you're turning off HT from Task Manager, you need to disable **every other CPU core**, because you are essentially disabling just the HT cores for an application.

[@امیررضایی-ن2ض]

During heavy gaming, my CPU is used up to 95%, but the graphics card is only used at 30-50%, why? Rx 6600xt sapphire pulse core i3 10100f

[@nickthurian5028]

I have ryzen 5 5600x should i turn smt on or off

[@ve7ro]

Probably a rare scenario for me but turning off my hyper threading dropped my fps even more, any ideas why this could occur?

[@arcanea6350]

What is your cpu?

[@KingOdious]

thats what is supposed to do idk what these npc's are doing at all multithreading increases performance of multi-core processors

[@omerakgoz34]

It is a good thing in practice but when disabled SMT valorant does not use multi-threaded rendering option and so fps drops almost half.

[@Nezeriah]

Turn off threaded optimization in your Nvidia Settings and you should be fine

[@exilro5636]

What if you have 6 cores and 12 logical processors, Can you still turn it off if you wanna play games and have discord open?

[@Dac28575]

2 years later, but, i have the same question. What did you do?

[@ori4077]

If it lowered me from 8 logical processors to 4 return it back to the auto? pls answer

[@markp2085]

What am I missing? AT 7:12 there is a whole .7 fps difference. At 7:40 there is a 7 fps difference, but we are talking about going from 338 fps to 345 fps. You are not going to percieve that difference.

[@mostafarhm4511]

Can you Explaine More ? Wut You Mean Ty

[@akiraashley6264]

Can I turn off HT/SMT if my laptop has 4 Cores and 8 logical processors?

[@spawnkill]

So you don’t use Hyperthreading at all on any of your systems?

[@sergioghicu1063]

I have Ryzen 5 3600X, should i desable SMT or Not?

[@portman8909]

Keep it on. SMT makes the game and processes smoother.

[@czechowww]

you saved my life boss ❤

[@profbfc]

ur welcome

[@jorgenschippers7518]

Can you make a video of what to do after installing Windows?

[@sayedatherhussaini]

If you want gaming performance then DISABLE HYPERTHREADING. If you don’t want gaming performance, ENABLE HYPERTHREADING. That’s it.

[@thomasbrammer6228]

i7 9700k worth doing or not? its 8 cores 8 threads

[@ThinkPositiveDude]

9700K doesn't have hyperthreading.

[@texasrattler1325]

There is no HT for the i7 9th gen, only for the i9 model. If you feel you are having issues or simply want the best performance, unpark your cores. You can use software or just disable them in windows registry. Lots of info out there on how to do it. All fairly simple. I have the i7 9700K and I unparked my cores for better performance. It really helps if you have like multiple monitors or doing more than gaming at the same time.

[@EthanNSenpaiVN]

Somehow when I disable SMT on my motherboard's BIOS, Windows just stopped working properly. Guess I will stick to Process Lasso...

[@Yennork]

Now i gotta turn my cpu fans up to get the hot air out so my gpu doesnt overheat lol but with the i5 12th and 67xt i do notice a lower latency. Thank you lots P you have single handed me optimized my pc for an enjoyable experience on the poop game warzone lol youre much appreciated

[@LJ-uy9ru]

So sounds like I should do this with i9 10850k 10core 20threads????

[@CHedd00]

Is there any way to do it in bios with a prebuilt pc motherboard? There is an advanced tab but there is i can’t do anything there, my pc is from acer

[@memes5073]

My thing says HP PC Hardware Diagnostics UEFI i dont see tweaker where do i go?

[@hanc2w]

Mine has 2 cores. Should I try it?

[@abdmahirofficial5103]

if i have 4 core 8 logical processor , should i disable SMT ?