Thread: Intel Core2Duo

Threads are code that execute simultaneously. More cores, means more can run at once. Any program that has more than 4 threads (almost all of them,) perform better on an 8 core machine than a 4 core one. Most programs tend to have about 8 threads running at any given time.

And most games are not CPU intensive, run a game and look at the CPU usage, it's usually under 60%.