Quote Originally Posted by accord99 View Post
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
charts were a little confusing at times, but i dont quite see how HT was tested, since they turned turbo on too.