i never said crunchers wont want or need 6cores... i just said most people dont...
and dave said i should get 6 cores to which i replied, no i shouldnt

but yes, for crunching and video editing and rendering 6 cores will be sweet, and with ht this should be very very impressive...
you needed a 4 socket board for that performance only a few years ago

isnt it sad that cpu performance doesnt scale for normal users as it does for crunchers?
since conroe there have been barely any notably performance improvents in the cpu segment for normal end users...
think about it, whats the performance diference in a normal gaming 24/7 system of a conroe 4ghz compared to gulftown?
maybe 10% in some apps?

for crunchers, the performance improvement will be almost 600%
but for desktop usage its maybe 30% at best in some few scenarios...
i really really think both intel and amd are on the wrong way cpu development wise...
theres no way you could re-code the os and all the apps we use every day to get anywhere near the 600% improvement for a gaming 24/7 desktop scenario with gulftown vs a conroe at the same speed... some things just cant be parallelized...

we need faster cores and better ipc, not more cores...
that will benefit everybody, crunchers, servers, desktop users...