Todays games require higer clocks and max 4 cores.Thats why most of todays CPUs have 3.0+ Ghz clocks and only 4 cores because games and applications are programmed to use most 4 cores.Still ,2.4GhZ 4 core beast will be enough for most of todays games and it even may get better in the future if programmers decide to proggramm games for 8cores.