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/slaps head

Egads man, this is like when you thought the R600 was Gods second son. And we all know how that went.

HD video playback on PC now relies quite a bit on the GPU. Do we need 8 cores just to run a movie? Play a song? Look at pictures? Chat with friends?

Gaming, maybe. Highly unlikely though for the foreseeable future.

For professional works like rendering and encoding? Possibly. But I'm 100% sure some other aspect of the computer will be hindering the magical 8 core CPU before it's fully used, like say...the hard drive?

P.S.
Crysis is a bloated piece of coding who's developers are too lazy to optimize it's coding and left it to ATI and Nvidia to make drivers work decently with theirs.