Originally Posted by
Minusmagier
I would not support that statement in such a general way, since heavy multi-tasking is something I myself and many other gamers I know do nowadays. A second screen with a browser rendering a twitch stream is just as common as Outlook hogging your system resources in the background while indexing your viagra junk mail.
Sure, if you just run a game and have a streamlined system, you're right. If you actually have a buckload of applications open all the time, like me, the core and pipeline count or cache size will yield a more stable system in any case.