>>106337574
To be fair it's Microsoft that dictates that. Windows won't support more than 16 physical cores without additional licensing. So if I have a CPU with 16cores and 32 threads due to hyper threading, I don't have to pay more. However if I have a CPU with 32cores and 64 threads then Microsoft wants a license for those extra 16 cores otherwise they won't be used by the os
>>106338387
Wait, so if you use Intel CPUs, Core 7/i7 or Core 9/i9, which have more than 16 cores thanks to E-coreism, those extra cores don't get used unless you have Windows Pro?