title: Does Visual Studio 2012 utilize all available CPU cores?
body: <p>I am planning to build a new very fast developer computer under Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 7 64 bit. I am getting all fast components like SSD's and 16G RAM. I was wondering if <strong>Visual Studio 2012</strong> is built to utilize all available CPU cores. I am trying to make a decision whether to get an expensive 6 core I7 CPU or a lesser expensive quad core CPU in terms of whether they make a difference in compile time since that's what takes the most time when I am not coding.</p>
  
  <p>Note: There's a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1814015/was-visual-studio-2008-2010-or-2012-v11-written-to-use-multi-cores">similar post from 2009</a> but I wanted to know if VS2012 has much better performance than VS 2010 in terms of cores utilization. </p>
  
  <p>I am balking at the $1000+ price of the I7 Extreme.</p>