Questions about the upcoming 6 core cpus...

[Ninja Please!]

I realize that only %2 of all games will utilize 4 core cpu's, but does that also mean those same games will use all 6 if you had them? And even still, since there are no games that will use %100 of 4 core cpu's will there be any advantage in gaming by having the westmere? Basically I'm trying to figure out if it makes any since for me to buy one if all I do is game really. AFAI see it, it was pointless to go i7 for gamers to begin with, although I had my reasons for doing it. If the westmeres can clock to say 5ghz (hypothetically) than would that be any noticable gain in gaming (over my 4ghz I have now)?

 

[Phemo]

No, it won't make sense to buy a 6 core CPU for gaming. I doubt any games will be optimised for more than 4 cores right now, they don't even make full use of multiple cores as-is.

A 5GHz Westmere would most likely be a fairly decent increase, but at that point we'd probably be GPU limited anyway. Of course it's quite likely that due to having 6 cores, they won't be as superb overclockers as we're used to seeing with current quad i7s so 5GHz is probably being way too optimistic.

In short it's way too early to tell, but I'd be willing to bet it's totally worthless for just gaming alone.