CPU Cores for Gaming, Streaming, & Rendering Simultaneously - Is More Actually Better?

Since the release of Haswell-E, there has been a lot of discussion about whether a CPU with 8 cores is really necessary for most prosumers. So, we decided to test what kind of real workload an 8 core, hyper-threaded CPU can handle.

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