Does 6 cores and 8 core makes a BIG like HUUUUUUUUUGE difference in gaming?

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Harley the rookie

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I was thinking about AMD 8320 vs 6350. I know for sure that 8320 is definitely better but I'll over clock it and I don't know. Do you think it's worth the 8320 is worth the $20?
 
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your looking at a 20-25% difference if on the same architecture. no its not a huge difference in gaming. most games are poorly optimized for cpu usage anyways and fully rely on the first 4 cores available. after that, 6, 8, hyper threading, is going to amount to the 20-25% at best.
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Fundamentally it depends on what the value of $20 is to you.

I upgraded my Athelon II 955 Black to an FX 8320 - and the difference was quite noticiable. but then having twice the cores, and the faster speed and updated tech could have had something to do with it.

As for the difference between a 6350 and an 8320 - the 6 core is running faster and the 8 core has more cores and more L2 cache. They are both vishera - so that won't make a difference.

I would still spend the $20 and get the 8 core.
 
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your looking at a 20-25% difference if on the same architecture. no its not a huge difference in gaming. most games are poorly optimized for cpu usage anyways and fully rely on the first 4 cores available. after that, 6, 8, hyper threading, is going to amount to the 20-25% at best.
 
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Well, nowadays most games dont use those extra cores, most of them will only roughly use 4 cores. With the new generation of consoles we'll maybe see better optimized games for those extra cores in the next years.
 
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Everything I've seen to date indicates that the difference ------------for GAMERS----------between a 6-core and an 8-core CPU is hyped far beyond ANY rational reality. In the gaming world, the GPU is king---------------the CPU is the support structure, and like others have said, the Gaming world doesn't (yet) know how to truly use more than a 4-core CPU. (Yea-----quite a few qualifiers aren't there!!). My personal feeling is this:
Buy the equipment you need, and plan on "some" growth before maturity (about 2 years or so). I'm still running a quad-core CPU and able to run ANYTHING I want, easily. ------------------Yeah, the "latest and greatest" --------------MIGHT------------show some improvement-----------but then again, will I even notice?
At this point, I'm waiting for AMD to announce it's latest socket config (sometime in 2015). At that point, I MAY consider an upgrade---------------but probably not much better than a 2nd tier AM3+ MB and CPU.
 
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