Processor Scaling (Score 1)

I'm sure this has already been pointed out, but unless you're working with a well documented highly scalable and very specific problem like say, Navier-Stokes simulations you're not going to utilise many of those 80 cores. Running a single threaded program will still only use one core in all likelihood. (But hey, Vista needs more cores to run all those DRM checks 30 times a second!) And most parallel programs don't scale well past 8 processors anyway, so until some new programming paradigm and better compilers are available, this is just another "Everest" a.k.a "Because it was there and we could".