Originally Posted by Fraz
I thought that 8 hardware threads was an integral part of all (quad core) Nehalem CPUs?
Hope so, but there was some murmoring that low end versions might have it disabled.
Originally Posted by j.o.s.h.1408
why is that? whats wrong with bloomfield?
Price, especially in the chipset department. Lynnefield will have a cheaper chipset and dual channel will mean motherboards are much cheaper, as well as cheaper to populate with RAM.