Hyper-threading is good. But does not match coreage. (well a i7 4p socket might whoop its ass if overclocked.. by manufacturer, aint happenin on that level though... and trichannel ram? made such a diff on i7.

quad channel? z0mgZ!!! AMD has rocked the latency world forever. (Still have not seen an i7 beat my 35ns latency of a 3200 winnie and 2-2-2-5 ram at 470MHz. Intel triple channel must be close... Quad is going to be in the 20ns range...