We have discovered the 142x builds have problems when hyperthreading is enabled, e.g. hangs, spins, whacked coloring and whacked HCB. We are working on a fix.
Workarounds are to disable hyperthreading or revert to build 1418 in which the problems occur far less often.
the answer seems to be yes. this makes logical sense to me. i don't have a dual CPU myself, but if you can set both the IDE and VA then i would be interested to know your results.