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kinkinkijkin Wrote:Well, it MIGHT be useful for a gaming build if you're playing an "AMD-optimized" game like one of the Battlefield games, or are recording footage, or want to play the horribly-unoptimized crapfest of slowdowns called Planetside 2, but not elsewise. Okay, MAYBE if you don't have an NVidia card and want to use CPU-based PhysX in one of the extremely few games that uses it, but that's it.

So, unless you're doing something that requires more cores, go with the 4670k.

PS2 along with most "AMD optimized" games will run the same on both. CPU Physx is usually singlethreaded believe it or not so that wouldn't be useful either. It could be useful for recording though.

It may be single-threaded, but, if your game uses 4 cores (you'd be surprised how many do, if you didn't know already), it can be a real help with it to have hyperthreading.

I know how many do. I can count them on one hand (maybe two if you're being generous about your definition). And I'm not sure if any of them use physx (probably not but I can't be sure). And if any exist how many of those have physx as the bottleneck? Probably none. And even if such a game exists HT wouldn't necessary provide significant performance improvement if it's only 1 extra thread. <5% for sure. So yeah. That's not a good reason to spend extra for HT.