mum, games are not much optimized for multicore chips... One thing you get with X6 is 3 or more cores being ready to do anything you like while you are gaming at the same time! This is great since you can fold and do world community grid or you can encode audio/video and still be able to have the same performance as if you are just gaming due to sheer number of available cores to you. This is also known as multitasking and these chips look like they were born for this kind of usage. Not to mention X6 clock great and have lower temps due to process node improvements AMD made with their 45nm SOI tech.