Is my 8300 good?

[ARikozuM]

2 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

People really underestimate these fuckers. Sure, they're antiquated by this point, but they hold up a good fight in a game that can take advantage of many cores.

People also misuse "single-threaded" and "multi-threaded" quite often as well. 

 

For example, BF1. It's a "multi-threaded" application. Sure. It uses more than one core, but very few of its calculations are handled by multiple cores. Each bullet is directed by one core the whole way (each core can handle hundreds of these "bullets", but back to the point) and having to "multi-thread" the calculations would indicate that BULLET 1 is traveling from point A to B on CORE 1 and then going to CORE 2 for points B to C. Having to pass off these calculations would be a waste of time when milliseconds determine "hey it hits that guy" and "it hits massive landmass, i.e. you suck". 

 

2nd point. Check Resource Manager. You'll find that all programs are using at least one thread...

Spoiler

What's that program using 192 threads? I have a 4790K! I should only have 8 "threads"... No. You (I?) have 8 logical cores. Intel has done quite a bit to improve parallelization of their CPU architectures and programs aren't fully utilizing everything that is under the hood.