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If I'm only using it to play games, I should get a 4 core 3.8 over a 6 core 3.5 cuz the games only use 3 cores max?

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Same price btw

Well actually since posting this I found out Crysis 3 can use more than three cores, but it doesn't "need" to use them, it just gives some extra performance. As a rule of thumb, I would pick Intel > AMD rather than high clock speed > low clock speed, if you buy any intel processor that has "K" at the end of the name, that indicates that it's unlocked and you can OC it yourself - most i5's can manage 4.5 ghz with (very good) air cooling, up to 5 with liquid cooling. But 3.5 ghz (stock clock) will be fine for almost every game.