Quote Originally Posted by Mats View Post
No, it's not like that. They will run at 100 % each, either one or two cores.

It's all about the module who will have the performance that's 180 % of two regular full cores (2 x 100 %), but the size is much smaller than two regular cores.
it sounds like the same thing being looked at from both directions

if you get 100 uberpoints with 1 core, you get 180 with 2 cores in the same module

if we move on to examine the whole 33% more cores, 50% more perf for the server stuff, and take into account scaling efficiency estimates, and assuming similar clocks. my extremely simple answer is 25% better perf clock per clock between BD and PII, add in better turbo (200 more mhz is safe bet), i think a single core BD should be similar to 5ghz of a PII core (or 40-50% better single threaded perf, but for Thuban thats for 3 cores, for BD im thinking 4 threads)

so my very horrible estimate is that you will need 4 cores of PII at 5ghz to equal stock turbod setting of BD in gaming.

(please do not try and compare your information to this post, it is not in any way scientific or accurate or detailed, its just an edjumacated guess from an edjumacated guy)