I think it is clear that quad-core is not for everyone at this moment in time, and that is exaggerated even more when you consider that the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 is going to retail for somewhere north of £650 including VAT. When you consider that a Core 2 Duo E6600 is going to be more than enough for most people at around 1/3 of the price of the QX6700, it becomes even harder to recommend the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 right now.
That’s not to say that the product doesn’t show us some potential though. The problem that we see is that software needs to take the time to catch up, and in particular games need to move to a parallel programming model – this is especially true because Intel is marketing its first quad-core chip under its Extreme ‘gamer’ moniker. We know that anticipated titles like Crysis and Alan Wake are going to make heavy use of multiple cores, but they are both still some time away.
looks a lot like slashdot ;)