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[quote name="jeep"]Actually the thing that changed since 2006 is the sweet spot price/perf is now 4 cores and that's not a super huge deal for everything but paired up with SSD it makes crysis (which is threaded) a different fucking game. It's super pretty and you just kind of run through games with the quick load times. A lot of games are a little smoother when the OS is busy doing housework on a different core than the one you're playing on, and the SSD makes a big difference in terms of loading saves and maps. Modern vid cards aren't the jump they used to be except on brand-new games, I agree with you in general that 2006-now isn't the huge leap that the five years prior were. Needless to say non-gaming linuxy shit burns on the newer hardware because that's where software is going, at work I got 4 chip 8 core hyperthreaded xeon shit that makes short work of little jobs like "process every phone call in the US last month" or "show me every url request to google over the same period" Stuff I want for future hardware improvements: some kind of big step up in IO to storage, even more speed to memory (maybe more independent channels?), maybe some improvement in local network traffic via compression hardware at each end? I can't see people adopting fiber at home so it'll have to be chips. [/quote]