After Effects not reporting virtual cores

I'm currently installing my new workstation and came across the same issue however, I have 36 physical cores, 72 virtual cores but only 36 are visible by AE.
Using latest CC2014.

Hi Todd, thanks for the feedback, managed to change it.
However onto next thing when I look at the resources AE is using it's far from using the potential of my new workstation.
Are there specific things I should look at or change to get AE more up to speed ?
Current hardware setup:
2x Intel Xeon E5-2699v3 @2.30Ghz (2x18core)
256GB Ram
System disk: 2x120gb SSD RAID0
Scratch disk: 2x120gb SSD RAID0
Workdisk: 4x512GB SSD RAID0
Video: 2x GTX980
Windows 8.1 Pro
So for example, I'm loading in a 4K DNG sequence, I would expect Disk Usage would get up to maximum speed, however in Resource monitor it shows it's using only a mere 10MB/sec
For this example CPU & RAM are behaving quite normal as I don't expect it to be CPU intensive or Fill up my RAM completely.

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