How to use processor power?

Question

Intel

Where / in what way to use processor power? I bought a core i5, it does not load above 40%, I thought the system would work faster .. it turned out to be enough ssd disk.

Answer 1

It is enough to make a program that will create one thread per logical core of the processor and will spin an infinite loop in these threads. 100% load will be on all cores.

Answer 2

Video rendering, for example. 3D games. Run the benchmarks.