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six cores eight cores 40 cores okay well

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maybe not the last one but High CPU core

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counts are a major selling point for computers and even other electronics

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these days whether you're shopping online or talking to a worker be at your

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local Big Box store and the idea behind it is simple higher core counts suggest

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more power kind of like impressive

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looking horsepower numbers on a car but is this this always the case well if you

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like many Techquickie viewers are a PC Gamer you've probably seen advice around

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the web or from friends that super high in CPUs with many cores or

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hyperthreading on something like a core i7 won't help you much if at all in

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games but why is that with the demand

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that current titles put on the hardware why are people averse to spending more

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on a more powerful C CPU well the answer

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lies in a concept called parallelization

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which means splitting a program's workload across multiple processing

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cores so a computer can work on two different parts of the same load at the

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same time for example let's say you want

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to know what 5 * 4 * 3 * 2 is a single

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core CPU would first multiply 5 * 4 to

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get 20 then multiply that time 3 to get 6 60 and so on and so forth however a

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dual core CPU could assign 5 * 4 to One

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Core and 3 * 2 to the other solve both

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problems at the same time and multiply the results together effectively saving

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time since it doesn't matter what order

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you execute the instructions in since you're just telling the CPU to multiply

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numbers this math problem is easy to

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parallelize now although this is a painfully simple example it does

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illustrate how certain programs can take advantage of multiple CPU cores because

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they require lots of number crunching that can be easily split up applications

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for video editing encryption file compression and even scientific research

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such as weather modeling do lots of calculations that can be parallelized

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easily also computer gpus are designed

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for parallel Computing since the same idea holds true for rendering 3D

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Graphics in a game so you can learn more about that in this video but lion is if

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my graphics card is designed for parallel processing why shouldn't I also

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be getting a CPU with tons of cores well

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the thing is that your GPU often doesn't handle much else other than pushing out

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frames to your monitor other important

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aspects of games such as artificial intelligence responding to inputs and

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telling the GPU what to render are still handled by the CPU because of the

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complexity involved in processing things like Ai and other forms of game logic

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and the fact that many of these code instructions for these types of things

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must be done in a specific order or in

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reaction to the gamer they're much harder for programmers to parallelize

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and split the workload especially as

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many current game engines aren't designed from the groundup to take

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advantage of multiple cores that said though your mileage may vary

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depending on what game you're playing some games due to variations in the

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processes the CPU is handling are more

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CPU bound than others and can benefit slightly from additional cores and since

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getting games to take advantage of lots of course is a bit of an unsolved

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problem in the industry work is ongoing to try to figure out how to make

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higher-end games easier to parallelize

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which could would ultimately result in cooler more immersive experiences but

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for now if you're just using your PC to game getting it anything above I'd say

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about a four core is probably Overkill and you're better off focusing your

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resources on well getting cores that perform well individually for one thing

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and on other components of your system speaking of individual performance do

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