So I was playing Watch Dogs last night and noticed that at times my CPU usage would hit 95-100% across all cores. Currently this is the only game that I have noticed this happening. With "next gen" titles finally starting to come out is this a trend that is going to continue? Is anybody else experiencing this? Would it be worth considering an i7 if games will take advantage of the extra vcore threads?
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From another thread Watch Dogs does not use the virtual cores of HT so I am not sure an i7 will help that.
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If anything the extra cache in the i7 might help.
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I saw a review where Watch Dogs performed the exact same on a 4770k at 2.5 ghz and at 4.5 ghz. If your CPU is at 95-100%, it's either a bug or optimization issues. It is not truly using a quad-core at 100%, not even close.