超线程的使用前提
目前正式支持超线程技术的CPU有Core i3、Core i5、Core i7全系。
在老CPU中，Pentium4 3.06GHz 、2.40C、2.60C、2.80C 、3.0GHz、3.2GHz以及Prescott处理器，还有部分型号的Xeon支持超线程技术。 一般来说，只要能够支持多处理器的软件均可支持超线程技术，但是实际上这样的软件并不多，而且偏向于图形、视频处理等专业软件方面，游戏软件极少有支持的。
支持超线程的软件：
Games, Game Engines, And Middleware
Activision Ghostbusters Capcom Lost Planet Colonies Capcom Resident Evil 5 CJ Internet Prius Online Codemasters GRID (withpatch) Codemasters Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Crytek Crysis Warhead (Windows XP only) EA Need for Speed: SHIFT Havok SDKv5.5 (Tool / Middleware) Illuminate Labs Beast 5 (Tool/Middleware) Geomerics Enlighten Kingsoft Mission Against Terror Kingsoft JX Online III NC Soft Aion NC Soft Lineage II Neowiz Alliance of Valiant Arms Sega Football Manager 2009 Sega Football Manager 2010 Sega Empire: Total War (with patch) Simul Software Ltd Simul Weather (Middleware) THQ Relic Company of Heroes Trinigy Vision Engine v7 (Middleware) Ubisoft Assassin’s Creed Ubisoft Far Cry 2 (with patch) Ubisoft HAWX Ubisoft World in Conflict: Soviet Assault Winking Sakura
Media And Productivity Software
ABBYY Fine Reader Adobe After Effects Adobe Photoshop* Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Adobe PremierePro Arcsoft Total Media Showbiz DVD AutoDesk3ds Max* Autodesk Maya Avid Pinnacle Studio BibbleLabs Bibble Blender Cakewalk SonarProducer Cineform Prospect HD Corel DVD Factory in Digital Studio Corel Video Studio Cyberlink MediaShow & MediaShow Espresso Cyberlink Power Director Cyberlink Power Producer HandBrake* Ichikawa Soft Laboratory SILKYPIX KolorAutopanoPro & Giga Magix Video Deluxe / MovieEditPro MainConcept Reference Encoder and Decoder* Maxon Cinema 4D & Cinebench* Microsoft Excel Microsoft Expressions Encoder MicrosoftWindows LiveMovie Maker Movavi Video Converter NeroMultimedia Suite Newtek Lightwave Nik Software Silver Efex Pro On2 Technology True Motion VP8 Pegasys TMPGEnc Xpress Persistence of Vision Raytracer Photodex Proshow Gold RARLABWinRAR* SonicRoxio Creator Sonic Solutions Cineplayer Sony ACID Music Studio Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio Sony Sound Forge Pro Sony Vegas Pro Sony Acid Pro Sorenson Media Squeeze Steinberg Cubase Steinberg Nuendo VirtualDubw/Divx XtraSens Retina 3ivx MPEG-4
