Quote Originally Posted by Zucker2k View Post
Are you sure those settings are maxing the GPU? I don't think those settings are very gpu-bound. In any case, your last statement takes nothing from what I said; if the i7's HT is the culprit, meaning the cpu is taking a negative hit, the results are still better than the PHII And if the gpu is maxed, then are you saying it takes only 22% of the processing power of a Ci7 at 3.6ghz to max the a 4870x2 with GTA IV? Or are you leaning towards the unknown?
Well off course i7 is faster than a PhII no one expected anything else "Clock to clock" but as OP has stated the PhII has a OC advantage over the i7

The HT does slow down some game and speeds up others while on GTA4 i dont think it has any type of impact. As i stated above i think even after disabling HT GTA4 will read the CPU with 8 imaginary cores!!!

22% means real 44% cpu utilization see my post above.....
Still in price to performance Phenom II is better as compared to i7 platform