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less then one percent.

Since 90% of the useres dont even know what a bios was, or how to enter. Plus many of the enthusiats also ran HT, maybe disabled it for ocing, but for daily usage they enabled it.

You just pwned me! LOL!

Sorry mate, I'm not the one who definitively stated that almost every single threaded app loses performance with HT on. You still haven't provided any evidence to prove that point, and I don't think you will anytime soon.

The majority of articles on HT were more favourable than not, most focused on the improvement in general responsiveness during multitasking in the age before dual core CPUs.

If you could just provide a link to an article that shows HT having massive performance and stability issues as you claim, then I would debate it on those merits, but so far all you've been sprouting is hot air.

Hot air? You mean BS? I never said "massive"--you gotta stop making mountains out of mole-hills. It's just that when I were reading all those articles, there were "quite a few" articles that were not so positive about HT for general usage. The same thing applied for NCQ (Native Command Queuing) with hard drives. I guess as we adopt the new features, more and more applications are optimized to take advantage of them. I do not want to "obey" your demands by digging up for a link. Perhaps you could just argue back instead?

HT gave one thing that was priceless on the P4. Nomatter if performance increased or dropped alittle. Creamy Smoothness(TM)
Dualcore smoothness without having one.

Whoa! Then why didnt those articles say it like you did, when HT was new? Pentium 4 was hardly helped by HT against the massively successfuly A64. After all, HT is nowhere as smooth as REAL MULTI-CORES (TM). HT might give like 10% improvement, but not 100% improvement scaling like dual cores.

Debate.. debate.. let's just drop it. I'll most likely leave this thread.