Are 4 Cores Still Enough?

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Glasswire
1:10 - Test setup
1:40 - Quad Cores getting dominated
2:13 - But life isn't just Cinebench
3:30 - Gaming Benchmarks
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5:00 - But life isn't just gaming
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9:25 - Outro