Nehalem-EP......BLOOMFIELD

[LIKMARK]

Then you should not compare it with your Barcelonas. Use Nehalem with HT on and off (if possible). You're still comparing 4 physical cores vs 8 physical cores. I count HT as an enhancement to the core, not as another core. AMD could do the same and 1 core will remain 1 core for me. Reality is, in most benchmarks 8 K10 cores lose to 4 Nehalem cores, each at full potential. That means HT on in Nehalem. That's sad.

Windows XP and Windows Vista counts "Ht-cores" as "another core", wouldn't it be safe to believe that the os uses the virtual core like if it was a physical core, isn't that what HT technology is all about? If not, please explain to me.

EDIT: I compared 8 threads to the 8 threads I have on my system, I don't see what is so wrong about that?? It's called multithreading, not multicpuusage or whatever. I wanted to see how Nealem Ht technology held up against my 8 threads (or cores, it dosen't matter to me, and I'm pretty sure it dosen't matter to the os when its multithreading if the threads is physical or virtual. It applies them the same way)