Bonzo3legs wrote: Am I supposed to notice a difference in speed?

It depend what you run on it. My PC, about the same age, has has 6 cores (i7-3960X). The only thing that I know uses them all - because it tells me - is compiling.

I've noticed that ffmpeg has a '-threads' parameter but never tried it to see whether it encodes more quickly.

Does Adding More Cores Mean Better Performance?