Just note that the perf loss is 20-40% in their benchmarks, so in your case, you'd need to bump that 4.4Ghz to 5.5-73.GHz, which is a tall order. In any case,

Just note that the perf loss is 20-40% in their benchmarks, so in your case, you'd need to bump that 4.4Ghz to 5.5-73.GHz, which is a tall order. In any case, the article is worst-case FUD-like nonsense. No idea what the eventual perf loss will be, but it's a safe bet it'll be less than that. Consider that it's likely safe enough for 99% of usages for the OS to allocate CPU cores to processes in pairs, and that would incur only a small penalty. And something smarter is almost certainly possible, too.