Should I use 4 cores at 4Ghz, or 6 cores at 3.8Ghz, for Far Cry 4?

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I have a Phenom 960T. I can overclock it to 4Ghz (with the standard 4 cores), or I can unlock the two disabled cores and run it at 3.8Ghz.

I have a Radeon 7870 XT (Tahiti LE) which overclocks stable to at least 1.1Ghz, 8Gb of Ram, on a Gigabyte GA-880GMA-UD2H (mobo), with an Intel 530 SSD. I run windows 7 pro 64bit.

The main question here is, does Far Cry 4 make good use of more than 4 cores, and if so, how big of a difference does it make? If I can avoid bottlenecking with less than 3.8Ghz on all six cores, I would rather do that, as it would probably be safer for my motherboard (although I do have noctua CPU fans blowing air directly onto the VRM's at least).

 
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It's not clear to me from looking at those graphs that more than 4 cores, on a Thuban chip is going to help. The only thing that is apparent is that really powerful cpus are helpful for Far Cry 4. I don't even know if any of those intel i7 series cpus have more than 4 cores. As for FX chips, their "cores" share some resources with another module, and so whether or not more than 4 cores in an FX chip helps is, as far as I know, a different issue than whether or not it would help with the cores in a Thuban (Phenom X6) cpu.



 
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Okay, after taking a closer look, it would appear that the additional cores of FX series CPU's isn't helping at all vs. lower core FX cpus. From this, it seems likely that more than 4 cores on a Thuban wouldn't be helpful for improving average frame-rates. However... I do wonder if more cores might increase minimum frame rates or something like that, and that's something that might not show up on those charts.



 
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True... oops.

I find it odd that the game doesn't seem to make use of more than four cores... In fact it appears that it's not even making much use of more than 2 cores. After all, this game was made to run on consoles that have 8 core APU's, right? Well, I guess my motherboard is probably better off not powering all 6 cores...
 
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