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adorai posted:Does anyone really care about "typical" single threaded workloads any more? More and more apps are being written with multithreading in mind, and even desktop computing seems to be moving towards virtualization (see: XP mode). Going forward single thread performance will be less and less important across the board. Most of the money is made in the enterprise, where max memory and number of cores are king. This is a pretty ignorant (or fanboyish) statement considering that almost all applications that you run, even in a "business environment" are single threaded. Sure some application have specific threads they use for various tasks, but for the parent thread faster is better, always.
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Nonpython posted:But my computer gets 36 points higher on some stupid artificial benchmark for just $500 more! Then why upgrade at all? I can spend 0$ and ignore all benchmarks and still browse the web with windows 95 and internet explorer 3.0. 
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Or if you are an irrational fanboy who doesn't understand that performance per core is more important than more cores.
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