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we always want faster and more powerful components and these days people are starting to focus on other things as well like power consumption and thermal output but what about the age-old how many cores do our need for modern gaming question as the landscape changed or is it still quad cores for life like it was for pretty much a long time but it won't be Pentium G 32:58 dual core that made a big splash a while back is that processors blazing fast over clock speeds an affordable price point viable in today's market stay tuned to find out it stays subscribe for Linus tech tips for more awesome technology videos the Coolermaster no-touch tkl utilizes genuine taupe or hybrid capacitive switches and is now available at a more affordable price click now to learn more the test bench we use to get our numbers is rocking an Intel 59 60 X overclocked just a bit to 3.2 gigahertz with 32 gigs of DDR 4 RAM running at 3,000 megahertz it's also sporting a win force GTX 980 from gigabyte running at stock and we went a little bit crazy started disabling cords and hyper threading and to simulate various CPUs that are available for purchase today for testing we chose to use a dual core without hyper threading dual core with hyper threading quad core without hyper threading quad core with hyper threading hex core with hyper-threading and octa-core with hyper threading to round out our test suite now all right now for the meat and potatoes we chose a few new games for our tests we'll start with those ones first and first on the chopping block is cities skylines the benchmark cities we downloaded the Los Santos map from GTA 5 made bike Rockefeller on the Steam Workshop we chose a section in the town called South Los Santos with mixed traffic and building density to push the test bench quite a bit we maxed out the graphics and zoomed in almost all the way and then started to record city skylines likes its CPU cores but only to a certain point dual cores seem to struggle a bit more than the rest of them at least which wasn't too surprising a workout interesting was at the 8 core level cities ran a lot more poorly than actually lower levels and had very noticeable stuttering throughout all of our testing a reminder hover as we did run our tests shortly after the game came out so optimizations might be not be made yet and might be made in the future and could very drastically change things over time next up we have dying light we decided to run it at both 1080p and 4k after we saw the 1080p results to see if we could separate the numbers a bit more as the only outlier was really the dual-core how we ran the benchmark for dying light was relatively straightforward in the main town close to the tower there's a really long overpass near the start of that is a bus which is near the opening to the tunnel anyways just run down the overpass and loop back around while zigzagging through burning cars and the undead we ran our tests after the developers have released several patches and optimizations and even at absolutely cranked settings not much of a difference really occurs at the higher end configurations with only the dual core and dual core with hyper-threading configurations suffering a bit of a performance it our last newcomer to the game sweet but not our last benchmark is total war attila for this game we set the appropriate graphics settings which I decided was apparently freakin all of them and then selected the sway zones historical battle Sweden's wisest so I don't know and clash the armies together in one giant ball without speeding it up we ended up running the benchmark at every quality preset as you just saw to see if we could turn different results out of the game and it turns out total war attila is quite the powerhouse throwing more chords that it does indeed give a bit more of a performance jump over a dual-core setup however the amount is oddly very negligible at lower presets I will note that this game isn't the constant FPS of the game these numbers are only from intense combat sections so it would run way better when not staring directly into combat where the twist comes in is that the maximum performance preset the numbers are just ridiculous for this test and make no sense but average frame rates are super high and there is no drastic stuttering so if you're worried about if your machine can run this game put it on maximum performance settings and it should be extremely easy for you to do even with some older slower processors now that all the new games are done let's take a break for some oldies but goodies the first being tomb raider i know this game dates back all the way to 2013 but it's a very reliable benchmark in terms of GPU scaling so we decided to include it as it's in lots of our test suites like dying light we ran Tomb Raider in both 1080p and 4k and the results were pretty funny to be honest it doesn't seem to matter what arrangement of course you have the game run perfectly equal like freakishly equal even at 4k I think in the future we won't leave this game for GPU tests only our final game is Far Cry 4 this game is a bit of a show and that's why we saved it for last performance is essentially the same across 4 6 & 8 core settings regardless of hyper-threading but as soon as you drop down to do course hyper-threading or not the game flat out refuses to boot at all this is because Ubisoft locked out all users that have dual course from launching the freaking game there is a fixed floating around that could potentially get it running but it's a hassle and most mention of it has been pulled down by Ubisoft anyways those of you with older dual cores or the pentium g 32:58 anniversary edition but where is this could be a pretty big issue for you honestly the most disappointing thing about this issue is that from the looks of it it's easier to fix for pirates than it is for real paying users which is highly disappointing yet not at all a surprising all right I guess that brings us tidally to the conclusion of this video which is having more courses nice and may help with some things like video rendering or game streaming or whatever else but you don't need more than a quad-core for modern gaming and you would be mostly fine with a quick dual-core even but what's your sweet spot let me know in the comments down below or on the forum I know I like my higher core account processors because I tend to be doing a billion things at once on my computer including running virtual machines streaming games and more would you guys be interested in a course for gaming style video where we rerun these tests while doing other things on the computer as well like possibly streaming or just a whole bunch of tabs in a browser let me know speaking of performance our friends over at Shiro have an awesome high capacity battery bank that they want us to show off today it's their power plus three 13400 million power battery bank which features a nice rounded design and a slightly sticky 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