CPU core count (for gaming)
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What it means
How many CPU cores a game can actually use — and why a chip with more cores does not automatically give you more FPS.
More detail
Most games are built to lean hard on a handful of cores — often four to eight — and cannot spread their work much wider than that. Past that point, the extra cores mostly sit idle while you game, so a 16-core CPU will not beat an 8-core of the same generation at the same settings. …
In the Blackbook
The deeper explanation continues inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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