Quote Originally Posted by Loque View Post
starting to lean towards a Q9550 for gaming, all the extra cash for the next gen's cpu, board and memory could be spent on a better vid card or monitor, there's barely any game that uses 4 cores properly so a quad core will last until the next console gen..
This is exactly what I was asking about here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=76

I don't get why there's so much Nehalem hype. If they don't improve gaming performance, they might as well throw in the towel, because the areas they can really make a difference in other than gaming are transcoding, image processing, and media playback, all of which, algorithmically, are better suited to a parallel processor like GPGPU or (in the future) Larrabee.