I guess you`re one of the idiots who is not aware of the direction of cpu development in the future.
No, just an idiot who knows about price/performance values.
Making the claim post-comment about the value of a Dual-Core versus the idiocy of a Quad-Core is nonsensical - you are - suddenly - testifying as to the value of dual-core processing, but at the same time swinging the Bible of Uselessness and Stupidity about the potential migration of code to a quad architecture?!? Does not compute.
The value of dual-core processing is not that a game can utilize both cores (right now) but that Windows can have its own core enabling better multitasking.
If memory serves me right, you insulted people who bought multi-core cpus. Parse it down to those who bought Quads if you like.
Your memory sucks, and as this is a magical text-based medium you no longer have to rely on memory to check the accuracy of a claim. Shocking, I know.
You also clearly stated that nothing utilized multiple cores, at the very least nothing a gamer would run - a statement that is flat-out wrong. Now that you are called on it, you change your position.
No I didn't. Nothing beyond CAD and video rendering has a need for four cores - hence why Supreme Commander, etc technically "utilize" four cores but have little to no performance benefit.
In one breath you talk about how games don`t utilize cpus beyond a single core for anything, then you mention the 'Source game' (its an engine upon which games run, btw, not a game itself) utilizing a second core "only for audio".
I said Source game
s. You know, games that utilize the Source engine. See passage above regarding text and verifying claims.
Yes, the majority of games out there do not run on multiple cores yet, but thats changing quickly, and we (also) have things called consoles, and they are multi-core systems.
I don't care about consoles, that's irrelevant.
Coincidentally, there were also a great number of idiots at Silicon Graphics back in The Day®. Multiple processor systems were their specialty - we are simply treading in the steps of folks such as they. (Sun Sparcs too, anyone?...)
And guess who used those systems: people who worked on animation, video, and CAD, as well as server administrators. Durp.
I guess all us idiots with money to burn like purchasing hardware that can serve us well both now and in the near future.And even ignoring that for a moment, a Q6600 on single core runs faster than the single-core Hyper-Threader I replaced.
Saying that quad-cores are magically going to become useful or efficient at some point in time is not a useful assertion, because we don't know when they will, how they will, or what sort of performance they'll provide. I tend to buy hardware not in advance of supposed decade-long trends, because that really doesn't work. What happens when someone grabs one of the crappy quads then there's a socket change a few years down the line? Have you heard of Nehalem? What happens when the 45nm quads start flooding the market? DDR3?
So perhaps another useful argument is: even if quads are useful to a gamer, for example, why buy now? Why would anyone buy hardware that has been shown to have no performance benefit in pretty much every game (and other applications like PS) out there, especially at a time when the technology isn't mature? Assuming a new CPU bought every few years, do you HONESTLY believe that games are going to start needing those extra cores in two to three years? Using Source as an example: that engine is more than three years old! What sort of things do you think are going to magically move onto the CPU? Physics calculations, when GPUs are getting more advanced at that all the time?
This sort of attitude fails both in the long-term
and the short term. It's remarkably similar to the people on this board who make up strategies based on damage per second and ideal conditions and then go play a multiplayer game and get their asses kicked. You can say "oh well in the future this will work splendidly! you're just a multi-core hater!" all you want, but picking up a Q6600 hoping for some vague performance benefit is pretty much equivalent to throwing five hundred scouts at a capital ship fleet.
Anyway, knock yourself out adhering to whatever non-Quads you like.
Enjoy your straw-man.
