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Originally Posted by tuanming
Time will tell whether "more cores" would be useless or not  Comparing cores to cpu clock speed is not a good comparison... Of course GPU is the main horse power in pc gaming... Currently gpus can't harness enough power to run Crysis at a stable 60 fps or higher, hence there will be multi-core on a gpu chip Somethink like Intel's Larrabee or Amd fusion... |
Really what exactly do the e8000 or e9000 series offer over the e2000 to 85% of the regular users who don't play games or 3d rendering etc?
Whether its faster clocks, more cores, more cache, improved instruction sets, more efficient pipelines computers are losing their need to improve. More and more the hardware manufacturers will be grasping at straws trying to validate the need for more proccessing power.
Videogames are moving farther and farther away from PCs and more towards hybrid consoles with web browsing, hdds and movie playback abilities.