5Ghz air done Core i7 Extreme

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well thats just it in the end the desktop os will be alot more like server os's in that it can sustain a larger grouping of cores. 4x4 is what? and were talking about current maintsream server configs. higher core counts do an immense amout of good for servers and in the end will enable apps to take singular advantage of cores thereby freeing resources and speeding multiple processes up. alot of cores means alot of freedom and alot of speed.

sun has even more cores on its server cpu's I think its already at 16 and heading up not down. lets say you pack 1k cores on a die in a desktop, there isnt a whole lot that cant be done on that hypothetical system.

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well thats just it in the end the desktop os will be alot more like server os's in that it can sustain a larger grouping of cores. 4x4 is what? and were talking about current maintsream server configs. higher core counts do an immense amout of good for servers and in the end will enable apps to take singular advantage of cores thereby freeing resources and speeding multiple processes up. alot of cores means alot of freedom and alot of speed.

sun has even more cores on its server cpu's I think its already at 16 and heading up not down. lets say you pack 1k cores on a die in a desktop, there isnt a whole lot that cant be done on that hypothetical system.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/win...-gpu,6645.html
Homogeneous computing is coming, it is just a matter of few years

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well thats just it in the end the desktop os will be alot more like server os's in that it can sustain a larger grouping of cores. 4x4 is what? and were talking about current maintsream server configs. higher core counts do an immense amout of good for servers and in the end will enable apps to take singular advantage of cores thereby freeing resources and speeding multiple processes up. alot of cores means alot of freedom and alot of speed.

sun has even more cores on its server cpu's I think its already at 16 and heading up not down. lets say you pack 1k cores on a die in a desktop, there isnt a whole lot that cant be done on that hypothetical system.

The end... lol, there will be no end. The amount of cores will continue to grow while gamers still buy only what they need to play their games. im not talking about servers at all. ill believe W7 is a better gaming platform then XP when i see it.

what im simply trying to say is that wouldnt a dual core machine that could clock higher be more beneficial to gamers then a 4core 8 thread machine or a 8 core 16 thread machine? gamers use 2 MAYBE 3 programs at once. those are the game their playing, ventrillo/teamspeak, and occasionally a browser to look something up. lets face it, a processor like the nehalem is not needed to compete these tasks with ease.

if intel would make a dual core nehalem im nearly 100% positive that it would be a strong seller amongst the growing gaming community. lets be honest, if all you did was play a game when you were on the computer wouldn't you buy a good core2 over a nehalem?