Who says each game would have to utilize 80 cores? These multi core processors make other things possible such as encoding videos and such in the background while playing a video game. Imagine with things like this everyone could easily run a game server while playing the game on the computer and having no slowdown. You could run a CS, UT, and a couple other game servers for friends all while playing one of these games!
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Who says each game would have to utilize 80 cores? These multi core processors make other things possible such as encoding videos and such in the background while playing a video game. Imagine with things like this everyone could easily run a game server while playing the game on the computer and having no slowdown. You could run a CS, UT, and a couple other game servers for friends all while playing one of these games!