Quote - yay, then i can pay even more money for even less performance.

AMD dual core has been a big dissappointment for me. sure, a few apps optimized for dual core get a boost, but the majority dont, and they are absolutely useless for gaming. even after half a dozen annoying fixes, hacks, workarounds and even setting the affinity to a single processor (which defeats the purpose of having a dual core CPU) half my games stutter as if i were running them on a pentium II. bah.

It would sure be nice if developers would work to a common established standard. Choosing a system nowadays is becoming increasingly difficult, as it is even selecting a new television. Projector, Lcd, Plasma, hdtv formats for video editing and recording, new codecs being introduced overnight... argggh. Sometimes I wish things would slow down and engineers could optomize existing standards rather than abandoning them as soon as they're released. I'm "only" mid fourties but sometimes I feel very, very old.