due to the shared resources IPC can be measured in 2 ways, and its important to know them both. in theory SB has decresed IPC if we try to compare a core + SMT vs 2 cores, and i think people are doing it here too. if gaming is using just a few threads, then IPC might look really good, but if crunching is using all 8, it might look really bad. no point arguing over IPC right now until we get all benchmarks released.