Recent content by swellhunter

Cores and threads, gross CPU load "However, why does the combined sum peak at the equivalent of one core?" This is very dependent on the sum of the "thread" activity. Currently few games balance the load over all cores. There may be one or two major threads only. Minecraft (clients) will...

VM use. Not to revive the thread, but the number one reason there are two of these (if not) more is that the vast majority of users running a single guest OS or virtual machine want a dedicated ethernet port for that machine. The number two reason is to run a proxy on your own network, (for...