Sorry I missed this thread until now. Awesome work, Fenril. I doubt I'll be upgrading until later this year, but it's good to have this kind of data.
Quote Originally Posted by Bollwerk View Post
I'm honestly surprised that hyperthreading helped, especially by such a large margin. Maybe hyperthreading on the new procs is MUCH better than the older versions.
I don't follow the hardware scene closely these days (or at least, as closely as I used to) but I do recall that people were predicting a 30% boost to processing capability from HT in the Sandy Bridge CPUs. Fenril's test seems to bear that out.