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For gaming, you do not need 6 cores. You only need 6 cores if you run multi-threaded applications such as video encoding, photo editing, etc. Most game will not take advantage of that anytime soon.
Since you posted in the sc2 beta thread, i assume sc2 is one of the games you want to play. I don't remember the link to the benchmark a site did, but basically, sc2 will benifit much more from the clock speed and cache size on a CPU compare to the number of cores.
That said, if you know how to overclock, the new x6 amd's are very easy to OC you can easily get one of them up to 4.0Ghz on air.
either x6 or i7, you can't go wrong. But if you go the i5/i3 LG1156 route, its a dead end upgrade path. The i7 LG1366 will be compatible with the new i9(intel's consumer level 6cores) coming out later this year.
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