Even most indie titles use 2-4 cores now. Buying a threadripper is overkill, but a hexcore won't be wasted on games. Some rare AAA games will occasionally even

Even most indie titles use 2-4 cores now. Buying a threadripper is overkill, but a hexcore won't be wasted on games. Some rare AAA games will occasionally even use 8 cores. An easy way to see this is to underclock your CPU as far as it will go, and see how many percent CPU your favorite game will use.