[simion314]

I bought a non K CPU (without hyper threading) , If I would have bought the K version and later Intel announces "disable the hyperthreads to be 100% safe" I would not be happy, even if I am 99.99% safe with HT on, (I personally did not enable or disable any security thing, I run the Ubuntu defaults).

IMO Intel customers should not be indifferent, what you thought you bought was not what you got latter, you lost performance and you have to do advanced stuff to disable the security patches and be unsafe

Edit: My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused(my i5 is a K CPU 6th gen).

[onli]

Which processor did you buy where the K version has hyperthreading and the non-K does not? I don't think that distinction exists in any Intel cpu generation. K just means unlocked and sometimes a higher clock, it says nothing about hyperthreading.

[jefft255]

The K thing is about overclockability, not HT.

[makomk]

Yeah. As the article says, losing hyperthreading effectively downgrades your Core i7 to a Core i5, since (depending on generation) that's one of the main differences between the two processor series.

[gsnedders]

As of the 9th generation, Core i7 doesn't have hyperthreading.

[sq_]

Is it possible they're talking about a chip where the K version had hyperthreading but the lower end of that line didn't?

Haven't kept up on Intel well enough for the last two years or so to be sure, but I seem to remember there being a generation where that happened.

[simion314]

My bad, I considering buying i7 and got an i5 , I got confused.