How Many CPU Cores Do You REALLY Need For Gaming? 😮

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Whats the BEST CPU for your gaming PC, and how many cores should your processor have? 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16 cores? PC Centric benchmarks the 7950X vs 7800x3D, to show how many cores you need for PC gaming performance! ⭐ (AD) Corsair 6500X at Corsair: go.corsair.com/dagWjk | at Newegg: howl.me/clNOsR6jlCX

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00:00 How Many Cores for PC Gaming Do You Need?
01:34 Gaming CPUs Explained!
04:43 Bottleneck Testing w/ 4 Cores!
10:23 Advanced BIOS Tweaks
11:31 6 Core Bottlenecks!
13:32 8 Core Testing!
14:58 12 Core Gameplay!
16:01 FULL Benchmarks!
17:51 You Need ??? Co

All Comments (21)
  • @tonygeddes9558
    You only need one core. . . Hardcore I’ll get my coat. . .
  • @xPhantomxify
    I swear you always have a new video out EXACTLY for what I need or what I'm pondering about. Great channel.
  • @SmoothNoobGaming
    I liked the moving analogy, sounds unusual but makes a lot of sense.
  • Absolutely love your videos my friend gaming is my life I'm still learning about gaming pcs your videos help thank you
  • @Zombie101
    that intro slide into the shot was strong. Blades of glory style, love it
  • I love the vids I just got into pc gaming and your really helping me can you do a updated video with the best pc parts for high fps and a 900$ budget please
  • @truthseeker6532
    Yes, I have a 7800X3D. Nice to see it beat the living day lights out of everything from 4 cores to 16 core CPU's!!!!!!!!! That's it 7800X3D lay down the SMACKDOWN!!!!!
  • @harrykenyon2736
    I went for the i5 13600k paired with the rx 6800 xt, I built my first PC about 7 months ago.
  • as current mainstream consoles are 8 core and 16GB ram /+fast nvme drive/ the pc port would scale beginning with that, more ram /32GB/ helps with buffering main video cards vram, some strategies /lots of npcs or underlings following orders/ and big worldmaps can utilise more cores and more ram, but sweetspot is and will be for a while 8 cores as fast as possible, if you work with your computer as well than your purse is the limit......I am really curious how adding npu and AI into games will change the gaming and also push the limits of what is possible vs what is necessary....interesting times we live in.......
  • @nivea878
    i have a 14700K + 4080 super, its working great
  • @ay5471
    Dragon Dogma 2 has entered the chat CPU 💀
  • @sergiopablo6555
    I was surprised to see the performance improvement with 12 and even 16 cores, but really happy to see my 7800X3D destroy everything nonetheless.
  • @jetiii7
    How does dual chamber allow for a tiny build?
  • @yumri4
    At most it seems games can support up to 8 CPU cores then 2 cores for the windows OS so they do not have to overlap though most CPUs can make it so overlapping isn't an issue for most processes. Some games max out all 8 CPU cores so having 10 CPU cores is needed so the maximum amount of cores that games will require is 10. How many actually use 8 is very few as most still use only 4 CPU cores and 2 CPU cores for the OS which can overlap with the CPU cores for the game.
  • @ramstein7879
    Interesting test. What software is he using to monitor the performance in real time?
  • @Barney-ic3uy
    With these builds, he really needs to try DCS World. This perhaps would challenge the systems built. Something to think about