Pentium G3220 vs G3258?

[eton975]

This is true. I've seen it countless times because it's occurs daily, an old program using 100% of 1 core as soon as it's minimized. The Celeron Pentium chokes, but since it's dual core it's tolerable. A 4-thread CPU would handle this problem much better.

Is there a way to patch the OS to trick programs into thinking there's really 4 threads?

 

[sm625]

Is there a way to patch the OS to trick programs into thinking there's really 4 threads?

That would just make things worse. It would take more cpu cycles to implement and manage that trick, but you'd still have one thread potentially eating up half the resources of a dual core cpu.