Why do you guys say that most games use 4 core's and if you use a AMD cpu that the other 4 core's will do nothing. that's not

Jul 30, 2015
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Why do you guys say that most games use 4 core's and if you use a AMD cpu that the other 4 core's will do nothing. that's not true at all. Even if the game only uses 4 core's the AMD CPU still uses all of it core's to process what it is processing
 
The 4 extra cores will address background tasks and whatnot as the system runs. However, tasks, such as gaming, that are not coded to utilize more than 4 threads, will not benefit from the extra threads.
Take Terraria for example. The game runs on a singe thread, my core 1 is maxed out, where as the other 3 are at ~5-10% usage for basic windows, skype, etc.