[davidmr]

I wondered that as well. I guess my imagination for uses isn't particularly good, but all the uses i bought my 16 core workstation for (mostly research computing development) would really suffer with the memory performance of the 32 core chip.

I don't know enough about video games, but I would naively think that the memory latency would be a big deal there as well.

At any rate, I learned a lot from this article. Anandtech's reviews always seem well-written and well-researched.

[cptskippy]

> I don't know enough about video games, but I would naively think that the memory latency would be a big deal there as well.

It really depends on what else you're doing. If you're just playing a game then Disk and GPU tend to be the biggest bottlenecks in video gaming. Even a reasonably fast modern CPU is sufficient for most games.