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fenderlove01 on 30 March 2010

I am no expert so i was just wondering are there any applications out there that can even use 6 cores? I havn't heard of any so i was just curious and if not is it even worth to bother with?



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Cougarman on 30 March 2010

i dont think its worth it at this time, considering the price, quad core is still the best option imo



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Squilliam on 30 March 2010

Most applications made today have been made X core aware in that they are designed to scale to as many cores as applicable.



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rmarier83 on 30 March 2010

You'd be better off waiting for a non-extreme version of the same architecture to come out, it would be half the price or more if you did (unless money's no obstacle).



jefforange89 on 30 March 2010

There are some applications that don't work properly at all on it because they mess up when detecting amounts of cores that aren't powers of 2.



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1337 Gamer on 30 March 2010

For gaming it will be pointless. Unless your running a server or something i would pass



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Garcian Smith on 31 March 2010

There's not much that can make use of hyperthreading at the moment. Intel really overshot the market with the i7 line.



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Soleron on 31 March 2010

If you really need a 6-core, but can't afford $1000, get the Thuban quad-core coming about May. 2.8GHz (3.3GHz Turbo) at ~$200 or 3.2GHz (3.6GHz Turbo) at ~$300.

But you're probably better off with a fast quad-core for desktop apps, an i5 750 or Phenom II X4 if you can't go above $180.

The $1000 Intel Extreme Editions are very poor value, but they are fast.



NJ5 on 31 March 2010

Applications yeah... (mostly server and video stuff, I'm guessing)

Games, not so much as far as I've heard.



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lostintheodyssey on 31 March 2010

In my opinion there is no need to upgrade at this time since I don't think that there are any games that take advantage of 6 cores at the moment.

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