06-12-2014, 09:04 PM
^ You misunderstand what he means. 8 cores is fine, but you are setting 7 extra threads, for a total of 8 threads. Since you only have 8 cores, your software threads are competing with the core EE and GS threads. The gains above 4 threads are almost nil as well.
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