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Hi everybody, I have a problem. My apu is an amd a10-7870k whit 4 cores and 4 logical. As you can see in the picture, task manager says that its a duo core whit 4 logical...

How can i enable the other 2 cores for a normal game experience ? Is is from the bios ?
Is it time to change my cpu ? And what can you prefere me ? Its an FM2+ socket and i dont have the finance for a new mobo :(

 

Benchmarks:
GTA V - The fps is boucing around 20 (in the city) to 40-50 on the highway. (Normal settings/ around 1200mb/2000 vram usage)
GTA IV -The fps is around 10-15 (in city) to 30-40. I dont think that its normal. (very high/Almost maxed out settings)
CS:GO-no problem, max presets 100fps+
League of legends: medium settings- 70fps (+/- 10)

All are on 1920x1080 resolution 


Full specs:
CPU-AMD A10-7870k APU
GPU-RX 460 2GB
Mobo- Asus A88X-PRO
RAM- 2x4gb Adata 1666mhz
PSU- 600W N-joy whit 80+ certificat
HDD-1TB WD Black

3 120mm fans for cooling

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thats because the architecture its based on, Buldozer, has its cores in pairs, shareing some stuff which is also the reason why the FX line of CPUs are shit

I spent $2500 on building my PC and all i do with it is play no games atm & watch anime at 1080p(finally) watch YT and write essays...  nothing, it just sits there collecting dust...

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The other 2 cores are already enabled, its because these older AMD cpu's used 2 cores in one "block" so to speak, windows just reads the number of blocks.

 

Don't bother upgrading on a dead platform, wait until you can afford new cpu/mobo/ram and go for a ryzen build.

 

 

         

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Also note that GTA 4 is horribly optimized.

 

It takes a lot to run that game, even more so than its successor.

The Workhorse (AMD-powered custom desktop)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | GPU: MSI X Trio GeForce RTX 2070S | RAM: XPG Spectrix D60G 32GB DDR4-3200 | Storage: 512GB XPG SX8200P + 2TB 7200RPM Seagate Barracuda Compute | OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro

 

The Portable Workstation (Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2021)

SoC: Apple M1 Max (8+2 core CPU w/ 32-core GPU) | RAM: 32GB unified LPDDR5 | Storage: 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD | OS: macOS Monterey

 

The Communicator (Apple iPhone 13 Pro)

SoC: Apple A15 Bionic | RAM: 6GB LPDDR4X | Storage: 128GB internal w/ NVMe controller | Display: 6.1" 2532x1170 "Super Retina XDR" OLED with VRR at up to 120Hz | OS: iOS 15.1

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