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That was the fun thing, they didn't really benefit - you'd have to get them running on Windows 2000 to even have a chance at using that second CPU.

However, once you got that working, you could play your game AND listen to music at the same time! Phenomenal.

Which you definitely got from one of the many legal music streaming services at the time ;)

Well you have to have another core free to run your sick winamp skin, otherwise how will you keep up your K/D?

Games didn't (not directly), but your workload did. If you ran an NT OS (2000/XP, primarily), the system would gain from being able to run background tasks without needing to preempt your game's logic.

It's impossible to run Windows as an exokernel, so you would inevitably gain some benefit (even if negligible).