small corrective post here: hyperthreading means that a core is a bit more efficient at handling two threads compared to a cpu without hyperthreading, it doesn't mean that you'll get twice the amount of cores :) "Hyper-threading is an Intel-proprietary technology used to improve parallelization of computations (doing…
Finally, some nerd talk, haha. A few things I should mention is the computer has been used by me alone for around 2 years (its the 2008 model). So its using the Quad core xeons that dont support hyperthreading or anything. I usually try and get a new system every 2 years if it will be fast enough to justify the price. Also…