Comment by CountSessine

But if you don't have HT in your i7, you basically have an i5 that you paid more than you needed for.

Or has that changed? At one point, i7 was full-featured, i5 was an i7 with HT disabled, and i3 was i7 with HT intact but smaller caches. Is that different with Skylake/Kabylake?

and my previous comment was ironic :)

Ack - sorry. I must be irony-impaired. That's why I don't post very often. :-)