Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
the comparrison is not invalid, but it makes no sense to compare them, cause everyone knows that 8 physical cores are faster then 8 logical cores (4 physical with HT)
Yes everyone knows that 8 logical threads is faster than 4logical and 4 virtual threads, and I thought it would be nice to see some numbers, not just the general statement that 8 vs 4+4virual is faster. Will anyone tell me why there is no sense of comparing 8 threads/cores with 4+4 threads/cores- ht virtual threads/cores? I find it interesting to compare this, and I believe as said before:
But why is this not an reasonable comparison??! It sounds like a very reasonable comparison to me if you are in a situation where your computing needs could be met by a Quad core Ht enabled system, or if you'll maybe need a dual cpu setup. Wouldn't you want to know wich system suits your needs best?
that buyers would like to know what meet their computing needs and cost the less.


It was not intended as a showdown to crap on nehalem perf, something it obviously appears most readers believe.

what, i dont know what forum you are browsing, but xs still welcomes reviews of upcoming hardware.
It was a response to Donnie27's lame remarks, please read again to get context.


maybe that has something to do that mm wouldn't try to compare a single socket system to a dualsocket system, if he would try to compare his harpertown rig to bloomfield, im sure he would earn the same criticism )nothing against you mm )
well I would like to know the difference.

man everytime i hear this argument i cant help myself, i have to grin... what is so fun on tweaking a system for hours to gain next to nothing?
I have nothing against tweaking, but when it gets excessive and the results are rather weak its not my thing.
I take the "simple and not funny" fsb system every time over the "complex and funny" HT K10 system anyday.
Yes we are all different. As I don't intend to go Xtreme on overclocking (DI/LN2) there is no way for me to for example show my skills in tweaking a intel system as some dude with the right connexions/money craps on your oc with his LN2 system.

I really hope that ocing doen't get more complicated with nehalem, i dont want to fiedle around for hours to just get some basic overclocking resulst, but if i hunt for max performance i welcome those options.
Again, people are different

Quote Originally Posted by JCornell View Post
You're not serious too to compete below system with Phenom right ?
Bring it on, I'm ready ... 4 threads vs 4 threads right ?


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I would be interested in seeing Netburst/Core2/Nehalem/K8/K10 thread efficiency (or whatever to call it), in a variety of relevant benchmarks. That is because I find such things interesting, not to crap over the guy with the worst performing system, wich obviously is the way to go here in this section.