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Originally Posted by JSLTIGER
Where in the world are you getting those benchmarks from? Latest reports I heard said Phenom (aka Barcelona, AMD's quad core) was a flop in terms of performance. The engineering sample that they demoed at E3 was only 1.6 GHz and top speed at launch is supposed to be around 2.3GHz.
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What i heard last it wasnt a complete flop, but it isnt anything spectacular either, it will be arround 25% better clock per clock but thats about it. Though i do agree with you completely that currently quad cores are a waste of money since the only thing te shine at are benchmarks and very few games (allthough prety much every game coming out this year and in the future is multithreaded) and other aplication, however things are quickly moving into the direction of multithreading aplications. Pretty much its a wild guess wether going to a quad core in the near future will pay off or when everything mainstream is multithreaded you have a processor so outdated that it is unable to run them anyway, though this would be quite an unlikely cenario.