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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 3590135" data-attributes="member: 40793"><p>Well, Thanee is about to buy a GTS which has 6 multiprocessors on it and each of those has 16 streaming processors making up a 96 'core' card in total. I admit it takes some specialist programming to make use of them. My current stuff will make use of a few CPU cores and I am working on something new, to be announced later this year I hope, that will make use of as many cores as you can give it. Its being tested on quad but it would help if I had more. I know I keep saying that I am unusual because I develop high end stuff but to say that its not possible or not going to happen on the desktop for decades is wildly pessimistic. It will be a few years sure, and games (for once !) will lag behind for a few more unless your talking consoles which for sure will make use of it. Actually isn't the XBox360 3 core CPU and the PS3 a 7 core cell ? Something like that anyway but the point is that its changing now. Intel have said that they are not going to make more than 4 cores on a chip for a while tho. Back onto topic, whatever the hardware industry cooks up, I'm sure MS will cater for. Its difficult to hedge against what might happen - especially now - but buying what will just about cope with todays hardware will not allow it to last long. Because you might have to upgrade a lot if you change to multi CPU I think that you can buy that bit with some confidence but number of cores / ram and perhaps power requirements etc, thats going to change.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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