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i think you can actually run everything off of the usb drive in live desktop, just to give it a try yes

did you try playing WITHOUT mods?

the fix was probably easy but yeah, you're free to install windows again

Is your SSD cool enough? Might be slowing down due to overheating?

Which part of "everything is okay" don't you understand? It still shows as 4 cores 8 threads even on a top of the line ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 motherboard or even a Crosshair V Formula. Upgrading won't change anything. All 8 cores are detected, just Windows being dumb and telling you your CPU is 4 cores 8 threads because the way the architecture is shares resources among all cores by 4 modules of 2 cores each. I have 2 MSI 970A-G46 AM3+ motherboards aswell and same thing there. It's just the way things are.

It registers as 4 cores 8 threads since Windows 7 & 8. It is perfectly normal, nothing to worry about. Unless you're getting sub-par performance then everything is fine. I'm an FX user so you can take my word for it

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I don't think you will have more issues besides a working GPU driver, but yeah, i hope you don't plan to use this long term

Linus explicitly said NOT to use Vista as a daily driver OS, because it isn't supported anymore since last year and if it supports anything above Fermi cards (GTX 400 & 500 series) i'd be surprised.

It's not strange to see 75% CPU usage in games, especially if you uncap the framerate, your system will try to push as much fps as it can so it will make for higher load.

Agree, PCI-e 2.0 x16 is like PCI-e 3.0 x8 which doesn't limit a 1070 as far as i know.

UPDATE: Besides telling me to do basic troubleshooting steps, ASUS has not done anything useful for me. Board is out of warranty, they don't do repairs, end of story for me. I might try swapping back to my Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 and run the CVF with an FX-4100 to see if it's a bios compatibility problem -which seems weird since the Crosshair IV Formula seems to be able to run FX-piledriver-.

I have the same wifi card sitting underneath a Radeon HD 7970 in one of my rigs, also have the same in another rig above a GTX 580 and they both operate just fine

UPDATE: taking the whole rig apart and reassembly didn't fix it... i'm in contact with the ASUS support to try and know what's wrong and if there's a possible fix...

how hot is it?