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Michael Vince wrote:
> HTT was Intels best early stab to help path the way for their multi 
> core technologies to come into use as quickly as possible for the 
> masses over just the server end.

Exactly, thats why i wouldn't spend too much time bothering with HTT. It 
was a transitional technology for multi core CPUs, which are now the 
standard. It will be interesting how the new Conroe processors fair on 
FreeBSD, the early benchmarks show better performance than AMDs offerings.