Agreed 3.4 would be roughly equivilent. However beware that while HT is great for doing multiple things at once... It can screw you sometimes in single threaded apps like graphics rendering. I guess if you have hyperthreading enabled, but are only using one thread, it slows down a bit for whatever reason. However as mentioned above, when it comes to gaming, AMD pwn3z! Intel will have a hard time touching the 3500 with anything afordable.