Is HyperThreading worth the extra £80?

[Cythx]

So it looks like the 3770k will be £80 more than the 3570k.

As far as I know the only difference between the chips is HyperThreading. So basically I'm asking myself if I should pay £80 for HyperThreading.

Now, I know it's currently useless for gaming, but what about in the future? In 2 years time, would games be making use of this technology?

 

[Cythx]

go for the 2600k and then you get hyperthreading and its only £50 more

I'd pick a 2600k over a 3570k anyday of the week

For gaming, why? I've seen HT never provide a benefit to gaming and sometimes impair gaming performance?

 

[Cythx]

Does the 2600K / 3770K / Hyper Threading offer any advantage to programming in Eclipse and creating virtual Android devices? If it would be quicker on an i7 would it be much quicker?

It seems to offer an advantage to many productivity apps so I'd say it's probable. Have no first hand experience or any benches I can show you to though.

If it did work, I would be almost sure it wouldn't be what I'd call 'much quicker'. Quicker definitely, but not 'much quicker'.

 

[Cythx]

Hyper-threading really helps SLI/Crossfire performance in BF3. Future games will probably utilise the Frostbite2 engine, so if you are planning on 2 top end cards I would definitely go for a 2600k over a 3570k.

The next big performance jump will be from Ivy Bridge to Haswell. Not much diff in Ivy v Sandy

Can you show me the benches for that please?