@tom, when i was waying out which processor to get, I heavly looked at that 6 core one, since i do alot of 3D modeling with Maya and what not, but idk what AMD did with their cores, but the 6core and even the 8core they got just are not cutting it for main line gaming, great for processing and being work horses. I think it probably has to do with what unr3al was getting at with the way games are designed. Also AMD sayed they are going to a whole new chipset so the MB for AM3+ will be out of date and would require a new board :(
I was impressed with Intel at their I5 quad core processors, cause i had an old pentium back in the day and it was a champ, then some AMD cores but never impressed with them. This quad core is rocking 50-60fps in GTA on all settings high, and without anything over clocked maya and other programs run smooth as a babys butt. I had a good laugh tho when i took a large sphere in maya and just exploded it into all its little polygon frags, and my computer shit a break but for 600 bucks, cant go wrong.