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To be honest Sentrosi I do not have any experience recording with FRAPS. If I had to guess it likely wouldn't be that major of a increase. Most games (barring BC2) don't take major advantage of a quad core just yet, so that should be plenty for using FRAPS. Regrading the use of six core CPUs though, the AMD Phenom II X6 is in no mans land at the moment. The 2500K out does it for gaming and many CPU intensive tasks, so that is hard to recommend. With the Intel Gulf Town six core CPU is worth getting depending on what you're doing. The 2600K has stronger cores then a 990X, but not enough to out do it in highly multithreaded tasks. The 990X is still the king of the road on Intel's platform.