Dragon Age 3

[Gogan]

Just looked at the recommended system requirements for DA3:

Quad core @ 3.0 GHz (Six core @3.2 for AMD)
8 GB mem
GeForce GTX 660 w/ 2GB mem
26GB disk space

I'm currently running quad-core 2.6 GHz CPU (i7 920), 12 GB mem, GTX 580 w/ 1.5GB mem. Granted, I built this machine almost 5 years ago now, but damn. Considering I want to play DA3 on ultra graphics settings I guess I'll need to do some upgrading in the next few weeks.

I was surprised to see the quad-core CPU requirement. Didn't think most games were very multi-core friendly these days.

Anyone have any thoughts on 6-core vs 4-core for gaming? Looks like clock speeds go up to 4 GHZ on the quad cores (~$350), and 3.5 GHz for the hex cores (~$600, $400 for 3.3 GHz).