so now, multi-core and hyperthreading

[madrebel]

hyperthreading is at best a hack that kind of works. at worst its just another buzzword to confuse you.

you should only be concerned with raw multicore support. forget hyperthreading its a marketing term with very little real world benefit.

[15JG52_Brauer]

Hypethreading works in some apps - like video encoding - that's why I have a 990 - but it's no use as far as I can see for games (It really does work for video encoding though - if the app supports i - I've seen 12 threads munching through encoding-far quicker than with the 920 I had before - but I have never seen them used by anything else). For gaming go for the best archiecture/clockspeed - a Sandy bridge has much better bangs per buck for that - and I am sure 2500k will be great. 2600k may be better in the future- or if you use some apps - otherwise save your money. It's horses for courses.

[Flyby]

I guess I'll have to decide how to proceed. I currently own the i7-920. Aside from a tower case, i have no other components. I suppose there are few sims out there that support hyper threading, anyway. I think it would be within reason to sell that CPU and buy the 2500K. With it's lower power consumption, and hassle-free overclocking, for a gaming rig this seems to be the prime CPU at the moment.
I'll be glad to see how CoD runs once it's been patched. Already it seems a GPU with 2gb of ram won't be wasted on this one. Now just get the core thing fixed...
Flyby out