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Originally Posted by Mauzen AMD's FXs are great for multithreading, but their single core performance is much lower then intels i series. Most games cant handle more than 2 or 3 cores anyways, so you got 3 to 5 extra cores doing nothing and end up with a lower game performance than intel. Thats also the reason why hyperthreading cpus are nonsense for gaming pcs.

Indeed, I hope further on games will start being optimized for CPUs that have more than 4 cores. Sadly, I don't see it happening any time soon unless Intel starts distributing 6 core+ CPUs that are affordable.