Quote Originally Posted by iocedmyself View Post
Well this is what i get if i set affinity to ONE CORE, with view distance 22 and detail distance 70 @ 3ghz. So if i7 has 8 threads to toy with....not that difficult to see how you could get 22% with 60fps when there is the core shutdown stuff. But regardless it's not about how much of the CPU is utilized it's the performance you get out of it.
8 threads is not the same as 8 cores; besides the game has to be able to utilize 8 threads. Let's assume it does, that's still 44% compared to 70%. The point I'm trying to make is an efficiency, clock/clock in game comparison. The available headroom on i7 is huge and should not be ignored since this is a comparison.