My New Ram Came In! YES!

[A Black Falcon]

Actually though, my point was that Intel isn't just increasing the number of cores, but increasing the efficiency of each core... otherwise, you wouldn't be getting more than double (and sometimes more, depending on the application) the performance from a Core 2 Duo than a Pentium 4 at the same clock speed when running applications that do not make use of the second core. But yes, beyond that, multiple cores is the current thing...

As for GPUs, though, huh... I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, while I don't know of any current ones, it certainly does make sense that they'd be in development. As well as an AMD CPU that might actually compete with the Core 2... :) Right now AMD is well behind.

With multi-core GPUs, I think dedicated physics cards are eventually going to be replaced before they really even become that popular.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Very few people are going to spend $300 for a dedicated physics card that supports like five games, but greater physics potential from a powerful graphics card with onboard chips? Yeah, that would get support.