Six core CPU's an advantage for CoD?

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We do know that CLIFFS OF DOVER will take advantage of multi core CPU's, the question is, how many cores can be utilized? Are 4 or 6 core processors better?

Up to this point, the technical discussion on this board has been pointing mostly towards a 2500k/2600k solution for a CPU. However, Intel also has its Core I7 970 and 980x six core processors. Would these have an advantage versus the 2600k? Can the game use the extra cores? ( I am not including the AMD six core processors in this discussion, they fall quite a bit behind in performance, although obviously not in value)

Oleg Maddox: We use a hybrid multi-threaded system. Separate threads are in sound or asynchronous loading of resources used. Moreover, we believe, for example, during loading or calculating Geometire TPL (Task Parallel Library) for the efficient use of available cores one.

Here is a benchmark test which may be relevant, none of the CPU's in this test are overclocked, the 2600k can be overclocked to 4.3, the 980x can be overclocked to 4.4, the 970, which is not shown in the test, usually falls just a notch behind the 980x in comparisons, can be overclocked to 4.1:

3DMark Vantage's CPU Test 2 is a multi-threaded test designed for comparing relative game physics processing performance between systems. This test consists of a single scene that features an air race of sorts, with a complex configuration of gates. There are aircraft in the test that trail smoke and collide with various cloth and soft-body obstacles, each other, and the ground. The smoke spreads, and reacts to the planes as they pass through it as well and all of this is calculated on the host CPU.

This test clearly shows a big advantage for the 980x.

Of course, the 980 is priced around $1000, quite a bundle. The 970 is much more reasonable, priced under $600. (and the price is falling) But both the six core processors are quite a bit more expensive than the 2600k and especially the 2500k.

So here's the question for those hardware geeks on this board:

Are the six cores worth it? Performance wise and price wise?