Illustrator CS6 only using 13% of cpu

Currently using Throttlestop to overclock i7-2600 to its turbo state and setting the priority of Illustrator to realtime and the affinity to the first 4 cores. Also, the system has 16gb of RAM installed and is set up as Raid 0 on 2 250gb 7200 rpm hdd's. Even during the most stressful tasks the cpu usage never goes past 13-14%, which is half of one core. The system is completely idle except for 1% in use by various system tasks. Is there a reason as to why Illustrator is throttling itself?

Most operations in AI simply are single-threaded, partly due to its legacy, partly inherent in the underlying linear math. Unless this is massively rewritten at the core, there's no way to change any of that and even then for most people it might not at all make that much a difference and only show up with complex documents and operations...
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My computer:
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De : Mylenium [email protected]
Envoyé : vendredi 14 mars 2014 16:19
À : Alison LEPREUX
Objet : bug illustrator CS6
Re: bug illustrator CS6
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Bug illustrator CS6

Hello,
I use the Adobe suite creative
I have all the required recommendations for Illustrator CS6
But regularly Illustrator will not start or it cuts abruptly, the following message appears:
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Below more elements
My computer:
Processor: Intel Xeon E5410 (Intel (R) Core (TM) i7 CPU 2.67Ghz [email protected]
Microsfot Windows 7 Service Pack 1 +
Installed memory (RAM): 8.00 GB
64bit operating system
Display: 1920x1200
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 1800-30bits
My usage:
illustrations (I only use Illustrator CS6)
planes (I use Illustrator with CADtools)
documentions-packaging (I use illustrator with jpeg or psd done with photoshop CS6)
information: I work on my computer and then I put my files on the corporate network
My problem:
regularly Illustrator will not start or it cuts abruptly, the following message appears:
"A problem caused the program has stopped working properly. Windows will close the program and tell you if a solution is available"
Do you have enough evidence to help me?
De : Mylenium [email protected]
Envoyé : vendredi 14 mars 2014 16:19
À : Alison LEPREUX
Objet : bug illustrator CS6
Re: bug illustrator CS6
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