Need CPU help please

[Jack Sproston]

I know its very old but i managed to get an fx-8350 cheap and since i cant afford expensive upgrades i bought it, i installed it fine however it isnt detected all the cores and threads or something? its meant to be an 8 core processor but in task manager it shows 2 cores and in cpu-z it shows 4

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[Crunchy Dragon]

What does the BIOS say?

 

FX 8xxx processors are technically 4 core/8 thread chips, so you're not going to see 8 physical cores detected by anything, but it's odd that it's not detecting more than 2/4. How does it perform?

[kelvinhall05]

Check the BIOS, maybe some of the cores are disabled. Try resetting the BIOS.

[Jack Sproston]

48 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

What does the BIOS say?

 

FX 8xxx processors are technically 4 core/8 thread chips, so you're not going to see 8 physical cores detected by anything, but it's odd that it's not detecting more than 2/4. How does it perform?

I havent even opened games yet i just wanted to get this sorted first. Also i havent looked in the bios as i dont really understand how it works and would have no idea what to do or where to look

 

47 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Check the BIOS, maybe some of the cores are disabled. Try resetting the BIOS.

How would i reset bios and where would i check to see if theyre disabled?

[DimasRMDO]

Checking the BIOS may help to see whether it's disabled from there, if so reset it to factory setting (or set the number of cores yourself), or....

From Windows you can....

Run msconfig, then head to "Boot", "Advanced options", then untick "Number of processors".

Just check the BIOS first.

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, Jack Sproston said:

How would i reset bios and where would i check to see if theyre disabled?

 

Go into your BIOS. It's probably under CPU configuration.

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, Jack Sproston said:

I havent even opened games yet i just wanted to get this sorted first. Also i havent looked in the bios as i dont really understand how it works and would have no idea what to do or where to look

Finding enabled/disabled cores should be under CPU Configuration/Advanced CPU Configuration depending on your board, but something along those lines.

[DimasRMDO]

6 minutes ago, Jack Sproston said:

How would i reset bios and where would i check to see if theyre disabled?

Press F1 (Help) and see which key shows "Restore Default" or something similar like "Optimized Default". It's under settings.

To see how many cores are utilized, just like @kelvinhall05 said, probably under CPU settings.

[Jack Sproston]

19 minutes ago, DimasRMDO said:

Checking the BIOS may help to see whether it's disabled from there, if so reset it to factory setting (or set the number of cores yourself), or....

From Windows you can....

Run msconfig, then head to "Boot", "Advanced options", then untick "Number of processors".

Just check the BIOS first.

 

16 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Finding enabled/disabled cores should be under CPU Configuration/Advanced CPU Configuration depending on your board, but something along those lines.

 

19 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Go into your BIOS. It's probably under CPU configuration.

Here’s some photos of the bios I took with my phone not sure where to go 

[Crunchy Dragon]

4 minutes ago, Jack Sproston said:

-snip-

M.I.T Current Status should tell you.

[Jack Sproston]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

M.I.T Current Status should tell you.

Just went into that don’t understand what I’m seeing 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Jack Sproston said:

Just went into that don’t understand what I’m seeing 

Alright.

 

The columns that are numbered 1-8 signify your CPU threads. It looks like 7 and 8 are disabled, going by the lack of information for them. If you go the Save & Exit, there should be an option to use default BIOS settings.

 

If that doesn't work, go into msconfig in Windows and try changing the processor settings in there.

[Jack Sproston]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Alright.

 

The columns that are numbered 1-8 signify your CPU threads. It looks like 7 and 8 are disabled, going by the lack of information for them. If you go the Save & Exit, there should be an option to use default BIOS settings.

 

If that doesn't work, go into msconfig in Windows and try changing the processor settings in there.

The load optimised defaults ?

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Jack Sproston said:

The load optimised defaults ?

Yes.

[Jack Sproston]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Yes.

Alright should I go back into the bios to see if the last 2 cores are enabled ?

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Jack Sproston said:

Alright should I go back into the bios to see if the last 2 cores are enabled ?

Yep.

[Jack Sproston]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Yep.

All the cores are now showing there but I turned on the pc and it’s still showing exactly the same as it was before in CPU-Z and task manager 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Jack Sproston said:

All the cores are now showing there but I turned on the pc and it’s still showing exactly the same as it was before in CPU-Z and task manager

Hit Windows+R on your keyboard, type in msconfig and hit Enter.

 

Go to the Boot tab, click on Advanced Options, and set your processor count to 8.

[Jack Sproston]

6 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Hit Windows+R on your keyboard, type in msconfig and hit Enter.

 

Go to the Boot tab, click on Advanced Options, and set your processor count to 8.

In the boot it only goes up to 4 cores and still in task manager it says 2 cores and cpu-z says 4 cores 4 threads 

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Jack Sproston said:

In the boot it only goes up to 4 cores and still in task manager it says 2 cores and cpu-z says 4 cores 4 threads 

That's weird, it should go all the way to 8.

 

You sure that's an 8xxx series FX processor?

[Jack Sproston]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

That's weird, it should go all the way to 8.

 

You sure that's an 8xxx series FX processor?

Yeah I’m 100% sure 

[Crunchy Dragon]

Just now, Jack Sproston said:

Yeah I’m 100% sure 

Weird.

[Jack Sproston]

1 minute ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Weird.

Is there a way I can update my motherboard or smth like i got this a few years ago and haven’t done any updates or anything to the motherboard 

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, Jack Sproston said:

Yeah I’m 100% sure 

What about Device Manager? Does that detect all the proper cores?

 

If you open that and scroll down to where it lists Processors, and expand that menu, it should have 8 FX 8320 listings.

[Crunchy Dragon]

1 minute ago, Jack Sproston said:

Is there a way I can update my motherboard or smth like i got this a few years ago and haven’t done any updates or anything to the motherboard 

You could try flashing the BIOS