Quote Originally Posted by JackBurton View Post
Do you realy think it will be a considerable margin of improvement?
Extreme Tech Forums: The difficulty of software optimization is a further reason why adding more CPU cores doesn’t help much. Game developers have made progress in using multi-core systems, but the rate of advance has been slow. Games like

Rage and Battlefield 3 — two high-profile titles that use multiple cores — both utilized new engines designed from the ground-up with multi-core scaling as a primary goal.

The bottom line is that its been easier for Intel and AMD to add cores than it is for software to take advantage of them. Seven years after the multi-core era began, it’s already morphing into something different.

That quote, as MiRai said, is in the context of a single application. Sure, games like WoW may be optimized for 2 cores and more won't make much difference but you're not just running one copy of WoW -- you're running 2-10. At that point, having intelligent affinity settings spreads the load across all cores evenly, which will DRAMATICALLY improve the system's responsiveness and stability. We effectively play a different game than everyone else, so normal benchmarks just don't apply.