Number of Physical Cores (*not* threads) Per Processor *
Most modern computer processors have more than 1 "core", almost like an additional processor but still part of the main CPU. This is not the same thing as the number of *threads* your CPU can process simultaneously, we are referring here to *physical cores* (for example Intel and AMD CPUs with hyperthreading can have twice as many threads as they have physical cores). Typical core counts are 2, 4, 6, and 8, 12, 16, 24, and 32, though some newer CPUs have 56 or more. Most CPUs come with an even number of cores, but some AMD CPUs have had 3. Remember, this is the number of cores *per processor*, not the total number in your system (in other words if you have 2 CPUs, each with 4 cores, you would select 4 as the answer here). If you don't know the answer to this, leave it blank, the same info is available from your CPU model number.