I am still shopping for dual quad core (I self build mysystems so i end up doing all the research)
I know that with hyper-threading i can simulate more cores(double). Normally this would bode well for rendering (more cores,right?). Some of the tech people at a university near me have anegative opinion of hyper threading. Granted, they are dealingmostly with servers and not with rendering.
I guess hyper threading accesses the cache in an inefficient way.

Has anybody done any testing to see if hyperthreading helps orhurts performance when rendering?

I have options of buying processors with or without it and i wantto buy the right one.

Thanks for any info.SolidworksPhotoworks