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Determine the number of cores in your CPU

Determine the number of cores in your CPU

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How to Check How Many Cores Your CPU (Processor) Has in Windows 10

With the latest releases of Intel processors, it's a certainty that most consumer desktops will soon feature computers with 2, 4, and even 6 cores.

With Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake, and Cannon Lake on the horizon, quad-core consumer PCs are becoming very affordable. So how many cores do you have on your current machine? In this article, I'll show you the different methods you can use to determine the number of cores on your PC.

The main component of any computer is the CPU, which stands for Central Processing Unit. The CPU receives instructions and then performs calculations. If a processor can only process one set of instructions at a time, it means that it has only one core.