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>I've seen benchmarks that say otherwise
Personally I don't think I remember reading about a proper benchmark on a 3.8ghz back in the day. I do, however, remember benchmarks on slightly older/slower models. The 3.8ghz (HT disabled only) outperformed the earlier Core2's by a good margin, but with HT on it was nothing spectacular. Reason being, only half of the cpu horsepower would be used.