Quote Originally Posted by scaramonga View Post
HT is a permanent OFF for me now. It shows practically no gain having it enabled (lets be honest, nothing really uses it) and generates way too much heat for what little it does

Even higher clocks can also be achieved with it off My 4 cores will do, I'll skip the virtual.
I think you just don't have the programs to take advantage of it. Almost every intensive application I use (where you NEED the power) takes advantage of it, and it's no small gain either...it cuts times in half and on some apps 1/3 the time. It is a *substantial* gain.

I have never understood why people buy a system like this and then cripple it. You are not gaining anything by turning it off. Yeah, you're increasing clocks, but still loosing performance. A 1 step forward two steps back kind of thing. If you didn;t need the threads to begin with why buy an i7? It's like buying a ferrari but saying I'm only gonna use 1 and second gear...the gains from the other gears are marginal.