Cpu 2 cores and 4 logical processors

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Currently running an A8 6500 cpu and noticed that it's become progessivly slower and sluggish lately. Just looked on my task manager and noticed it says " 2 cores" and " 4 logical processors"

What does this mean? Every game I've run is taking up 70-80% of my cpu, I feel like it's not running at full capacity.

I've tried msconfig's boot settings already, as well as checking my bios, I just don't see anything that has anything to do with the amount of cores I'm running.
 
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Think of cores as two CPUs, and think of logical processors as each of those CPUs being divided into two though not physically. In the processor, there are 4 threads because 4 logical processors = 4 threads, meaning basically that 4 sequences of instructions can be carried out simultaneously for performance gain over 1 thread. If one of those cores (or threads) is used up at 100% and the other ones are at 50% or so it can cause lag while gaming. It does not need to be the whole CPU at 100% to cause lag, only one core needs to be overflowed.
 
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Understood. But it wasn't always like this, only until now is it running high cpu usage with everything. Opening a game it goes to 100%. DCUO used to run at about 20% cpu usage, now it runs at 60-70%
 
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Check Taskmanager for any suspicious programs running and using a lot of resources.
 
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I always check my task manager, never more than 33 processes open. At 0% cpu usage before starting a game.
 
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