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I noticed that while playing Overwatch, which is pretty CPU heavy, my CPU utilization is at 50% only. Does Overwatch use only 6 threads or? I’m a little confused. 
 

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7 minutes ago, Victor Jones said:

I noticed that while playing Overwatch, which is pretty CPU heavy, my CPU utilization is at 50% only. Does Overwatch use only 6 threads or? I’m a little confused. 
 

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80%~100% CPU usage usually indicates a CPU bottleneck so no you don't want that to happen.

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1 minute ago, Vishera said:

80%~100% CPU usage usually indicates a CPU bottleneck so no you don't want that to happen.

Oh. I didn’t know that. Thanks. I mix up clock speeds with utilization. 

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28 minutes ago, Victor Jones said:

Oh. I didn’t know that. Thanks. I mix up clock speeds with utilization. 

while @Visheraisnt wrong you should simply check each core / thread utilization instead of speculating. 

 

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