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I still have my Phenom II x6 1090T sitting inside a box somewhere. Processor was a destroyer in its day.

Look at the chart again though. No test is ran with 4 core / 8 threads. 2 vms, one assigned strictly to 'HT cores', one assigned to 'real cores'. So vm a is assigned 4 threads, vm b is assigned 4 cores. 7zip with vm A, then 7zip with vm B. Then both are benchmarked at the same time. He never runs the benchmark while NOT in a vm. Load balancing is why they run better when not ran at the same times. When the benchmark is ran, there are less resources to share between physical/logical cores. When ran at different times, the difference between logical and physical vms is not noticeable. When ran at the same time, the physical cores have less resources to give the logical cores, and you see lower throughput.

The graph seems to indicate he did 3 tests, one using 4 physical cores, one using 4 logical cores, and one doing the two previous tests at the same time in two different vms. These are the results I'd expect as he is pegging each core at 100%, resulting in slower throughput for each VM. Watch the video again and listen to Luke explain how logical and physical cores exist together. The logic buddy of core 0 gets to use the extra resources of core 0, but what if that core is pegged at 100%, or even if it starts to hit numbers above 70%? Well, there aren't many resources for core 0 to share with its logic buddy. Windows tries to load balance, as luke said, hence why one VM doesn't just completely lock up when its physical buddy is using most of the resources.

LMG has made it very clear that they don't just want to unbox video cards and monitors every day of the year for the rest of eternity. Don't really blame the folks at LMG for wanting to try something potentially groundbreaking without risking financial ruin if the idea proved unsuccessful. LMG is still a start up, albeit a successful one at that, and they have to make business decisions that make sense for them and their fan base, and if that means working as production studio for a bigger, more financial solvent entities like Vessel, then so be it. If the content proves successful, we'll see something similar on YouTube Red in the future, I'm sure of it. This very well could be a stepping stone for an actual TV series (the WE LOST EVERYTHING video reminded me of a docudrama) or something along those lines, either web-based or if tech based cable television ever makes a come back (huehue).