Hm....quad cores are on the market more than 2 years.
Anybody who programms nowadays that not support tham should be shoot to Mars...
...even SH4 use all my cores...so Sh5 should do it also...
Dont forget physic simulation and AI put a heavy load on a single core.
I quickly run a test here with Anno 1404 on my GTX 260:
Anno limeted to 1 core: 10 FPS
2 cores 25 FPS
4 cores 51 FPS !!!
That is a huge performance gain, isnt?
and why? Because the CPU must feed the graphic card with data.... if the graphic card always wait for the singlecore it cant be fast...
I also think in the next 10 years games will not be a problem anymore....Intel have prototypes with 48 Cores
A word to RAM:
You will often not feel a performance gain in most games between 2gb it and 4gb Ram....I Only feel the computer is more smooth when quick switch between programms that open like switch from a game into a open word document because both programms be stored in the Ram and not in the page file on hd....
...on the other hand ram is cheap.... when you use your PC for render 3d images or video editing Ram will help...
Andreas