6 physicall cores id say its worth the performance as i can multitask kaw 2 and still c performance but need as much ram as possible to really utilize 6 cores.

Let me rephrase background task. Anything that is not running below Normal priority is not considered as background task. Just because it's not running in the foreground window, it does not make it a background task. Antivirus are not background, they are actually foreground task running hidden from view but that does not make them background task either. Since they all have the same priority, when they require a the CPU to allocate a time-slice to their process, they are going to get it.

That is why most people would report that any installation of an antivirus with active file scanning will always slow down the machine, unless you have sufficient CPUs to run it. I run Jackie Chan Internet Security 2010 and it slowed to a crawl on my dual core last time, exactly the same issue that most people complained about. Funny thing is that I don't have that problem anymore on my X6.

Ok then support. Thanks alot. I feel my Phenom X4 965 slow. Maybe I didn't OC. LOL Comparing AMD and Intel I think intel faster in multi tasking alot stuff

Oh yeah, 1 question does CPU affect the running of a game speed or its HDD and graphic card?