Quote Originally Posted by BeepBeep2 View Post

Either one of two things are going on -
1. AMD has MUCH faster cache at 32M and or K10.5 cores respond much better without being starved of cache (1MB per core vs 512KB for Deneb/Thuban)
2. i7 is crippled by having 8 HyperPi vs 4 running at once, despite it bouncing off of 100% load every few seconds.
You forgt the 3rd option:
i7 has a additional handicap of running also the cfd simulation at the same time. (probably 8 threads).

About the "smoother" BS... honestly thats always so much bs... I have noticed no difference between any of my systems till the A64 days and thats mostly due to the fact that since that point I started using a raptor...

The only time when I'll start to see a more "smoother feeling" again, is when i switch to a SSD.