Quote Originally Posted by Micutzu View Post
The term "usage model" generally defines the main type of applications most of the users run. If 90% of people use the PC for watching youtube videos, 40% to play games and 0.2% run on 3DStudioMAX and Sony Vegas at the same time (made up figures), the weight of multitasking performance in the usage model will be almost zero;
Yes, those are made up figures. But working with that, I'd suggest that the 90% figure probably wouldn't even notice the difference between something like high-end SB or BD and something lower like llano/lowend SB. Most gaming is casual gaming, and CPUs are a wash there too.

I am simply pointing out that lower single core performance isn't necessarily the penultimate indicator of useful desktop performance. Who multitasks? Almost everyone, I'd wager. Just some more than others. Will more cores be more useful than more IPC/clocks? That depends on you. Unless you somehow fancy yourself as the perfectly average computer user (to whom BD doesn't matter anyway), how average users use their computers isn't really the point.