Intel Core i7 Processors [models & pricing] ! !

[Epsilon84]

Well, your hunch got me wrong... I do not have a benchmarking fetish. If I were all about 3dsMax, I'd be thrilled to have the 10% performance increase thanks to 8 virtual cores.

My post wasn't directed at you...

Well, the reality is that HT actually *decreases* performance on most apps that do not take advantage of multiple cores.

I don't think so...
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1746&p=6

It looks like Intel was able to deliver on their claims, most users should have no problem leaving Hyper-Threading enabled as it won't reduce performance.

This chart pretty much invalidates the remainder of your post regarding HT...