Which part of the transfer limit and disk I/O makes my fans run high then? Or maybe it *is* the CPU burning hot instead?
Then this Gdrive process maxing out a single CPU core for over half an hour now surely is not doing anything anyway. To be fair, this is a prime example of badly written software causing unnecessary load, unfortunately not too uncommon with cloud service utilities.
While I was at it I included what happens when Firefox is started (out of RAM cache) in the background, maxing out another single CPU core.
I may be naive, but to me it very much looks like a CPU that offers faster 1 to 2 core processing would be quite beneficial in such situations. Throwing more cores at it will unfortunately do nothing to ease the pain (as would GDrive using more concurrent connections to transfer data like Dropbox does).
Before I posted my little list of programs that max out 1-2 cores I tested them all. Of course there always is a bigger picture, but single-threaded CPU performance is one of the bottlenecks you encounter once SSD performance (small transfers are still very problematic) and RAM are sufficiently available.
Of course they are, but gaming server performance is not the topic here, it's daily desktop experience. And with Warcraft the only thing that keeps me waiting - beside data transfer - is when addons are compiled and refreshed (especially during game start, but also with some load screens). A single CPU core is maxed out for well over 15 seconds (running lots of addons) while the rest of the computer (and internet line) is running idle.
But the topic was if modern AMD CPUs with their high number of cores give a smoother desktop experience than Intel's higher IPC, but lower core CPUs. My own experience with still far too many programs out there is that higher core count doesn't help as much in daily life as does higher 1-2 core performance. Regretfully...