Upgrade my CPU from 3770k to 4960x or 3930k

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I currently have a I7 3770k at 4.5Ghz on a Corsair H100i. I like to listen to music when I game and in certain games, playing at 1440p ultra, while lsitening to music etc starts to cause some stuttering and also lag for example in borderlands I play music and play at ultra 1440p on a GTX 780 ti it stutters when I type etc.

My question is Would a 6 core help me with all round performance, I know that game don't really use more than 4 core but with 6 would it help by using 4 for the game and 2 extra to help everything else?

Price is not a massive concern but I don't want to break the bank for something that might not help much.

I was thinking a 4960x or 3930k

Yes 4960x costs more but would added PCI lanes, lower power etc?
 
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While adding an audio card will likely fix the problem, you don't need to do it to fix the issue. It sounds like an audio driver issue to me, probably there isn't -enough- latency on the audio mix. Basically, the computer needs to mix audio far enough ahead so that it doesn't run out of audio to play (usually 50ms or so). I'm not sure if your audio driver is going to have a setting for this or not, but usually audio cards have a little more latency than onboard solutions.

Sometimes other timing issues can cause a problem. I experienced something quite similar recently when AMD put out a Radeon driver with a bug that caused audio stuttering when using crossfire and v-sync at the same time.

But, in any event, it's not an issue with...
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While adding an audio card will likely fix the problem, you don't need to do it to fix the issue. It sounds like an audio driver issue to me, probably there isn't -enough- latency on the audio mix. Basically, the computer needs to mix audio far enough ahead so that it doesn't run out of audio to play (usually 50ms or so). I'm not sure if your audio driver is going to have a setting for this or not, but usually audio cards have a little more latency than onboard solutions.

Sometimes other timing issues can cause a problem. I experienced something quite similar recently when AMD put out a Radeon driver with a bug that caused audio stuttering when using crossfire and v-sync at the same time.

But, in any event, it's not an issue with your CPU.
 
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Yeah, as i said, Worst case scenario-get a card.
 
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