No CPU Utilization on the 4th cpu core

[humuhumu_]

It seems like my cpu won't utilize the all the cores (only 3 out of 4 cores are utilized) does anybody know how to fix this? is my cpu half dead? this made doing normal stuff like rendering a video quite slow for me. 

[WereCatf]

21 minutes ago, Mikael_Abe said:

is my cpu half dead?

No, that's a software-issue. I have no idea why your system does that, though. Have you messed around with binding tasks to certain cores or used some "optimization software?"

[FakeFBI]

14 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

No, that's a software-issue. I have no idea why your system does that, though. Have you messed around with binding tasks to certain cores or used some "optimization software?"

if im not wrong 2nd gen i3's have 2  corres

[Guest]

What software have you been using to test? It likely is just a quirk with the software as WereCatf pointed out.

19 minutes ago, ComputerBuilder said:

if im not wrong 2nd gen i3's have 2  corres

2 cores and 4 threads, so most programs would either use 1, 2, or 4 threads unless specified