HyperThreading - On or Off?

[KWJay]

Just wanted people's opinions here. Was clocking my new system yesterday and my 920 can do 4Ghz on 1.216v with HT off and with temps after 2 1/2 hours of P95 of 61,63,64,64. Turning HT on results in a big bump in temps and the need for more volts (not sure how many mroe yet though).

So, is there any major drawback to turning HT off? I mainly game, do a bit of video encoding, bit of audio work and general browsing.

Thanks as usual for your opinions!

 

[KWJay]

Well, I've yet to do any proper testing with it on. I got a BSOD within a min or two at stock volts, upped it to 1.25v and it seemed to be running ok but with temps topping out at about 75c. Didn't run it for more than about 15 mins though as this was after pretty much a whole day of stressing and ocing though.

I was wondering about maybe changing my cooler. My TRUE is the one I got with me Q6600 nearly 3 years ago and I just bought a mounting bracket for the new mobo, how does an older TRUE compare to a Fenrir etc. these days?