Quote Originally Posted by RaV[666] View Post
Not only only well multithreaded apps.I really enjoy doing multiple things at once since i got 4 cores.Encoding a movie, ripping a movie and playing dragon age at the same time is really where its at ;-).Or declare 4 cores to crunching and play on another two.Damn i think i will be needing 8 cores.Theres all this plus watching 1080P x264 movies :P.
All in all every power user wants more cores.Not only workstation users.
Indeed, you can consider multitasking as a big multithreaded app. However, this processor still lacks per core perfomance like all other PhenomII processors compared to Intel's. You'll still get lower framerates when you game, or slower fps in x264 for the same number of cores, etc. That's why it's "only" good for multithreaded workloads.