Quote Originally Posted by STaRGaZeR View Post
That's true, and from a server point of view that's perfectly acceptable. However, increases in single thread perfomance, that means increase of each core perfomance, will have a direct impact in throughput. Also the Bulldozer architecture is going to be in desktop and mobile too, where single thread perfomance is still much more important than multithreaded and I can't see that changing in a long time. If BD cores are not "significantly" faster than Shangai I can't see AMD changing today's situation, where the competition is faster in almost all levels, including the server space, where they're attacking you with less expensive (for them), better perf/watt, better absolute perfomance parts.
i think the problem is the balance between tech that works great now, and tech that will last a long time.

most people are still happy with their 4400+X2 they bought 5 years ago. i just upgraded my 4850 to a 5850 and saw no increase in WoW, i guess somehow that game is cpu limited even though my PII 940 never has one core above 70%. some things really just dont like scale today, but if everyone only offered quads and above, maybe software would accelerate faster. it would be nice to know the single threaded jump, since many consumer programs probably dont care to be re-written for quads and above. but i think if i got a 8 core BD, i should be set for hopefully 4 years before i would need to upgrade again.