so, from what im hearing (judging by a vid on the nehalem by intel CEO) he says that 8 core configs will ship in 2008. But, the question i have is when will the number of cores come to an end. in my opinion 8 cores seems to be a bit much, 16 simultaneous threads is a bit insane. what kind of software/OS out there can utilize something like that to its fullest extent to start with? Why dosent intel make a nehalem 2 or 4 core just for gaming? 2 cores seems to be all that most games utilize anyways and with nehalem's architecture it can process 4 threads, so why not drop the on die cores to 2 and raise clock speeds?