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Originally Posted by Cricket
Oh, his room was 95F! Okay, that would account for higher CPU and system temps.
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Yeah, I thought what your were saying sounded a little funny. They put out twice the power, but no more than the previous Netburst based Extreme Edition CPU's, and they didn't run that hot.
I did see a few benchmarks showing quite a bit more muscle in a few apps (like video encoding), apps that are heavily multithreaded. I guess if you're heavily into those things, and faster video encoding means more $$ for your business, I could see one of these being worth it. Otherwise, it's not worth it to the average user. Not until games becoming heavily multithreaded (offloading physics to one core, gameplay, etc to other cores) which I hear is supposed to happen within the next couple of years. By then, they should have the CPU's Mr. Ferrari mentioned out and I'm sure they'll bring these down to the mainstream level. $1000 CPU's certainly aren't mainstream, and neither is the $800 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad they plan on bring out later.