you can get the 4850 in with C2D model.Yes but the price to upgrade to that chip and the video card makes it not worth it unfortunately.
yes indeed but i wonder what percentage of games are still singular core, and which are multi-core.I don't know because doesn't the i7 scale up to more than 3.33 when not using all the cores?
From the Intel spec:
Didn't realize it could also boost all cores if thermals allow.
two main "steps" to TB. first is to kick up the multiplyer to 21x for all cores if thermals allow. if its a single threaded app then a single core gets kicked up to 22x.