are you looking forward to 4 cores?

[mechBgon]

Hehe Hope everyone's got fresh batteries in their sarcasm detectors...

I wouldn't mind quad cores. It would be interesting to see trueSpace rendering on four cores at a time (trueSpace is junk but it's what I can afford, k?).

 

[the splat in the hat]

well l ll buy one , and just let the programs and games come......


the more power in a pc the better , and the closer we get to games like battlefield 7 VR, the better.

 

[arcas]

It depends on what you do with it.

For a compile machine, 4 cores will rock assuming the I/O system is up to snuff. This is because compiler processes are generally independent of one another so your throughput will scale roughly linearly until your I/O system can no longer keep up.

Similarly, I have a SMP system that I use to perform Wall Street analysis. The individual parameter sets are independent of one another so they scale linearly with the number of threads/CPUs.

I expect memory might start to become a bottleneck with 4- or 8-core CPUs though.

 

[Fenuxx]

If more stuffs starts to become multi-threaded, then 4 cores will r0x0rz! Otherwise, it'll just be another marketing gimmick for AMD and Intel (Especially Intel).