How Many CPU Cores Do You REALLY Need For Gaming? 😮

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00:00 How Many Cores for PC Gaming Do You Need?
01:34 Gaming CPUs Explained!
04:43 Bottleneck Testing w/ 4 Cores!
10:23 Advanced BIOS Tweaks
11:31 6 Core Bottlenecks!
13:32 8 Core Testing!
14:58 12 Core Gameplay!
16:01 FULL Benchmarks!
17:51 You Need ??? Cores!

[sergiopablo]

I was surprised to see the performance improvement with 12 and even 16 cores, but really happy to see my 7800X3D destroy everything nonetheless.

[xPhantomxify]

I swear you always have a new video out EXACTLY for what I need or what I'm pondering about. Great channel.

[tonygeddes]

You only need one core. . . Hardcore

I’ll get my coat. . .

[Teh_Monk]

My 7600X saw this video and made me click on it. He’s wondering if he’s about to be disrespected or given his rightful place at the top.

[jigglejaggle]

You're not doing this right, you want as many cores as possible on a single CCD/CCX. You should be running it in this order - 4/0, 6/0, 8/0, 6/6, & 8/8. If you did it this way you'd find that the 8/0 configuration runs better than the 6/6 and 8/8 configurations. The reason it's scaling so well for you is because you're pretty much comparing 2/0, 3/0, 4/0, 6/0, & 8/0, as the games have a hard time making proper use of multi CCD chips. Games are not scaling beyond 8 unified p-cores with 16 threads.

[harrykenyon]

I went for the i5 13600k paired with the rx 6800 xt, I built my first PC about 7 months ago.

[Zombie]

that intro slide into the shot was strong. Blades of glory style, love it

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Dragon Dogma 2 has entered the chat
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[nivea]

i have a 14700K + 4080 super, its working great

[yumri]

At most it seems games can support up to 8 CPU cores then 2 cores for the windows OS so they do not have to overlap though most CPUs can make it so overlapping isn't an issue for most processes. Some games max out all 8 CPU cores so having 10 CPU cores is needed so the maximum amount of cores that games will require is 10. How many actually use 8 is very few as most still use only 4 CPU cores and 2 CPU cores for the OS which can overlap with the CPU cores for the game.

[canguyen]

you will ALWAYS leave performance on the table,
there are ALWAYS a bottleneck somewhere,
best you can do is minimize the dollar to bottleneck ratio.

[ssiliezar]

Got a 7800x3d + 4080 super fe combo couldn’t be happier with performance (first build btw)

[UnknownMoses]

How many cores you need for gaming depends on the game you're playing, there is no one size fits all for best performance.

[SmoothNoobGaming]

I liked the moving analogy, sounds unusual but makes a lot of sense.

[lloyddomke]

Next you'll ask: how many beers are required for drinking?

[solidsnakegaming]

Absolutely love your videos my friend gaming is my life I'm still learning about gaming pcs your videos help thank you

[nelsontrick]

when a cpu is utilizing 50% utilization, all the cores are being used... when it goes above 50%, it is stating to use hyperthreading, so 67% is using all 4 cores, but 1 or 2 is using hyperthreading...

[DarkHellmor]

For your Hogwarts Legacy crashing issue, Disabling Hardware-Accelerated GPU Scheduling should do the trick as its very common to be the cause of crashing in that game.

[truthseeker]

Yes, I have a 7800X3D.
Nice to see it beat the living day lights out of everything from 4 cores to 16 core
That's it 7800X3D lay down the

[RonanThomas]

That Corsair case is literally the NZXT H9 Flow case.