Intel Core i7 Processors [models & pricing] ! !

[Metroid]

Holy thread resurrection, but to here's further confirmation that Hyperthreading hurts performance (look at the game benchmarks):

It is a double edged sword, as it hurts as it increases performance, however if we come back in the past we will see that the Pentium 4 had only 1 core + Hyper threading which helped most of users with bottlenecks, now things are different 4 cores means not much of a need, because it is hard to find applications at that level.

If you see correctly even with SMT OFF the performance in some games are a tad less which does not necessarily means Nehalem is failure at all for gamers. As it kept the workstation overloads and furious of gamers at peace, shows Intel did not want to launch something so drastic or revolutionary. Keep it simple!!!

Metroid.