Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
i hope no one hates me for wanting a 2module/4core BD. with overclocking it should still beat my thuban in multithreaded, but demolish it for gaming. i just dont have any reason to use more than 4 cores right now and lower power consumption means i can go cheaper on the board and save a little cash on the electric bill, and alot of cash on the chip. i just feel like i should throw myself off a bridge for upgrading to less cores, lol.
I'm with you on that. If the 970 had been available back then I would have never bought my 1090T. The only thing I use more than 4 cores for is converting lossless audio to Ogg vorbis to put on my Rockbox'ed Sansa Fuze. That process is limited more by my HDD speed than anything else at this point so I doubt I'd lose much with 4 cores. That said I may still end up with a 8 core Bulldozer some day if there is a sufficient difference in overclocks versus the cheaper parts because I can never get enough single-threaded performance.