Have you ever written a program in your life let alone a multi threaded one
Yes, in my past life when I was a programmer from India. But if you look to critique my post, I am not talking about complicated things I have no clue about, just the things I came across and was able either to see myself or read from many others who discussed this on forums and tech websites.
I'm pretty sure AMD chips install the same as Intel as I built one of each within the past year and don't recall any major differences apart from the cooler install.
The issue is not the CPU install- it's the headache of having to fix bent pins every now and then- If you constantly switch boards and CPU's, you'd know what I'm talking about.
Both manufacturers still use pins. However AMD place their pins on the CPU whereas Intel use LGA (Local grid array) which means the pins are on the motherboard, personally I think Intel’s solution is better as the pins are less likely to get bent on a motherboard and usually the motherboard is the cheaper component to replace if a pin does bend. The flip side is that because Intel release a new motherboard with every other generation you might have trouble sourcing older motherboards if you need a replacement due to a bent pin.
Until games can be programmed to run more effectively on many cores at slower speeds, this issue will remain. However, as been previously pointed out, RPGs and MMO's need and utilize the higher cores. But even at 8 cores, you still need the 5GHz of speed!
