forester; Actually, what is happening there is that the HT goody is there for the upcoming 'Toledo' chip...the one with the dual core. The Hammer cores were designed from the get-go for dualmultiple core capability; there are Hypertransport links and at least part of the a crossbar sitting in each Hammer chip (design wise it literally is a matter of dropping another core on the pin pad, and making the needed interconnects between them). Probably what's happening is the crossbar is being invoked, finding nothing, and booting things back to the single core. But AMD definitely has a winner on its hands, doesn't it? As for the P4.... Off the top of my head, I would say one issue is the 31 stage processing pipeline. That is a lot of potential latency issues if the code isn't tweaked to perform just right on that one kind of chip. A general app like Vue that is cross platform adhere's more to standard coding methods, not the custom ones that Intel suggests.