Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post
8 threads is not the same as 8 cores; besides the game has to be able to utilize 8 threads. Let's assume it does, that's still 44% compared to 70%. The point I'm trying to make is an efficiency, clock/clock in game comparison. The available headroom on i7 is huge and should not be ignored since this is a comparison.
You are quite wrong the game "GTA4" takes HT as added cores as in total of 8 CORE's on an i7 The reason why it does not show up as 42 instead of the seen 21 is that HT just sits on its arse doing noting "HT will do noting great if enabled or disabled"

So the game thinks its running on a 8 Core computer and compute scores for all 8 so called cores or threads. So if first on is at 40, second at 40, third at 40 and forth also at 40 but the HT all at 0, this will give you a result of amm 20% overall utilization.

Now besides this you do know that the game IDs my Q6600 as a PIII Xeon