Quote Originally Posted by Boschwanza View Post
You are right but just opening multiple threads and utilizing all this threads is still a very big different. I other words .. whats better ? : 2 full utilized Core or all cores with 12.5 % (quad core).

For examble:

Just found out that video encoding (Nero Suite) scales very well from 1 to 2 Cores (About 1.8x) but from 1 to 4 its only about 2.7x, which means one core is totaly obsolet.
Again, depends on the specific encoder and settings used.

x264 is one that scales well, 100% usage for 8 cores (it's been reported 16 cores as well and probably more when it comes out) when settings are maxxed out