Drivers (maybe) misreporting cores.

[rubyseeker12]

Hi. So, I don't know everything I did when i was playing around in thinks like device manager (ik thats kinda stupid) but i remember doing some driver related things to the cpu, (i also installed folding at home) and now my 10980xe (that i did buy off ebay, btw), reports 8 cores instead of 18. And it says it has 16 "logical processors" How can I fix this?????

Also: It some times says Skylake X as its cpu. Skylake was last gen.

[CommanderAlex]

Have you checked BIOS to make sure all cores are enabled?

[rubyseeker12]

5 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

Have you checked BIOS to make sure all cores are enabled?

Once I saw your comment, I restarted, went into BIOS, and all I did was go down to "active cores enabled" and switched it from auto (because for some reason that is a thing) to all of them. Now in software like task manager, it says 18 cores! Still don't know why it says skylake sometimes.. but otherwise, it seems correct! Thank you!

[CommanderAlex]

9 hours ago, rubyseeker12 said:

Once I saw your comment, I restarted, went into BIOS, and all I did was go down to "active cores enabled" and switched it from auto (because for some reason that is a thing) to all of them. Now in software like task manager, it says 18 cores! Still don't know why it says skylake sometimes.. but otherwise, it seems correct! Thank you!

Awesome. That's pretty weird that Auto mode was only using 8 cores on the processor. I would have imagined Auto would just use all 18. 

 

IIRC, Skylake-X is the name of the initial X299 CPUs like the 7th gen 7980XE. A 10980XE should be Cascade Lake-X. Your CPU-Z reports this correctly and might just be a BIOS reporting thing.