Quote Originally Posted by Sr7 View Post
Maybe I'm missing something here, but from all leaked benches so far, i'm seeing that Nehalem doesn't appear to be much/any faster in games than Intel's previous processors. So my question becomes: Why do people want i7 processors any more than a Penryn or something?

Even if it's truly faster in other things.. what will you do in an average day that justifies having a faster processor than the stuff that's out right now? Open sites/media player faster? Does anyone really run 20 things at once?

I know some people might say "I want to crunch/fold faster!" but GPUs can already do it faster, many times over. So what is it that people want? I honestly don't really understand... maybe someone could clarify this or explain it to me?
it's a combination of future proofing and elitism
for the longest time companies have been trying to write some sort of code to rewrite any single threaded program into a multi-threaded one

if it ever happens then multi core cpu's just became serious for users other than server builders