Actually, there are only a handful of games that can really take advantage of lots of cores. Virtually everything will be faster on a higher clocked dual core t

Actually, there are only a handful of games that can really take advantage of lots of cores. Virtually everything will be faster on a higher clocked dual core than a lower clocked quad (both with HT). There are reasonably priced 16 core AMD chips, and 8 core Intel chips (with HT, they'll actually be faster). I don't think there's much of a market for people who need lots of cores, but are unwilling to build a workstation, since the form factors are the same.