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Coogie7

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Aug 28, 2011
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I tried out StarCraft II in windowed mode with low graphics settings. How is it possible that it used around 160% of the CPU? :confused: What does it mean? Is it damaging?

:apple: Model: Late 2008 13 inch Aluminum Unibody MacBook
:apple: Processor: 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
:apple: Memory: 4GB
:apple: Storage: 1TB Western Digital 5400RPM hard drive
 
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Modern Macs have multiple cores within their CPUs. Each core is 100%. So if a program uses two whole cores to the fullest, it will use 200%.
 
Hyper threading also gives even more virtual cores. My quad-core i5 MBP shows 8 CPUs. Handbrake can use over 700%!
 
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