Disable cores for better performance?

[bioshockeruk]

I was having a think earlier on about my old fx6300 and was wondering if I could make use of it in another build for gaming for my son. My thought was that maybe if I disabled 2 cores making it into essentially a quad core instead of hex core I could then increase the overclock and it would perform better at gaming as most games prefer better single thread performance over cores right?

Any thoughts on this, and how would I go about doing so, would this be safe to use and would I gain any advantage from it?

 

[bioshockeruk]

i suppose thinking of it the CPU is made of 3 modules with 2 cores per module rather than being 6 individual cores with their own resources, so in theory if I disable some I would lose performance.

Was just a thought, maybe I'll just go get a low-end i5 and board for him instead

 

[bioshockeruk]

I have another machine that is using an 8370 already. So if I was to buy anything new now it would be intel side for the better feature set and newer tech. The amd's are old tech. It was just an idea to try and make use of the 6300. Maybe I'll just make a file server out of it so at least it's not wasted.