[Joe]

I am an SMP fiend, I havent had a non SMP rig as my main box in nearly 11 years now.

The simple fact is that expect games to use one processor, but being able to do other stuff at the same time is OHH so nice. I can rip DVD's, wile playing BF:Vietnam with no slowdown in the game. I normally do like 12 things at once on the box, and really never have lag caused by any application taking over the resources on the box. While the peak speeds arent as high as systems with a single cpu clocked faster, it just never slows down or lags as many single processor boxes do when you are doing one intense task.

Its like the difference between peak HP in a car and peak Torque. SMP = Lots of Torque, Single high speed processor = lots of HP.

and as its said, Hyperthreading is NOT 2 cpu's. Its just using areas of the CPU that werent in use for the process running to alow other threads to execute.