Quote Originally Posted by LesGrossman View Post
I guess you missed the reviews that showed how irrelevant hyper threading is in the desktop world, more times hurting that doing good, or else you wouldn't be praising SB 16 threads.
Please point out such reviews. Secondly, I suppose you realize HT improves through-output. Testing only the amount of time needed to complete a job and not the actual work done will give a false impression on HT.

For example : task 1 takes 30s to complete and processes 100 work units. I activate HT and now I get 34s. From your POV HT is hurting. In reality you have another task, task 2 which did some actual work in that timeframe besides task 1. Let's say task 2 did 30 work units.
Overall we have : 13% more time wrts to task 1, but 30% more work done overall.

Reviews fail miserably at pointing out this. They only show you : in game X with HT enabled you go from 180 fps to 170s. Conclusion : HT sucks. Maybe their brain sucks, not HT.

And what will stop AMD from bringing 16 threads to desktop other then the lack of need to do so?
A socket the size of your palm ?