Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
basically im trying to point out that such a generalized statement really dosnt make it easy to prove if true, since there are so many different ways one can solve such an issue.
I'm just referring to the stock factory situation. So while Thuban's extra cores doesn't hurt much in gaming performance, in reality neither does Hyperthreading. Looking at this review by IXBT, enabling Hyperthreading has essentially no impact on gaming performance:

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/ar...2009-5-p8.html