Messages posted by Myiasis

That quote from Microsoft is not talking about applications like PD9. PD9 is obviously a multi threaded application -- both advertised as such and you can see it takes advantage of multiple cores (as noted in this thread even).

The core i7 is a quad core CPU. You see the 8 listed on the windows task manager because you have Intel's Hyperthreading enabled. It isn't one thread per core like you mentioned. When using Hyperthreading you get 2 threads per core which is why you are seeing 8 in the task manager.

If you are maxing out the 4 actual cores, there is no benefit to using those extra threads, your cpu is already doing as much as it can.