Quote Originally Posted by pajaa View Post
To the lecacy discussion (if I got everything correct, because my english is too rusty):
Legacy seems to be the best way. Today we have CPUs capable of 0,4 teraflops? And right next to it sits a processor which does 1 teraflop like a charm, idling, eating power for nothing. I'd like to see system, which is fully aware of the capabilities of each part it consists of, to feed each component with tasks, that runs best on them.

to general Nehalem:
Hoping to see Nehalem is not slower in less-threaded games than current wolfdales, if it is, shame on you, Intel. And I like to see lower idle power consumption than equivalent Penryn quad.
Intel's current penryn based quad cores are capable of around 0,1 TeraFLOPS, not the 0,4 you mentioned.
About power consumption, my guess would be that it will be lower on Nehalem because Nehalem has been greatly improved in this respect and this is also what the PCU (Power controle Unit) is all about.