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Processors

马向楠
Journeyman III
‎07-19-2020 02:12 AM

AMD FX (TM) - 8300 eight core processor, msinfo report can only detect 4 cores instead of 8 cores

How to solve it? Get it back to normal.

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elstaci
MVP
‎07-19-2020 10:28 AM

In Windows for FX 83xx Series processors it will always show 4 "Physical" cores and 8 "Logical Cores". This is normal.

I have a FX8350 and this is what Windows Task Manager shows:

This is because each CPU Physical core has 2 logical cores.

In CPU-Z is shows my processor with 8 cores and 8 threads:

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elstaci
MVP
‎07-19-2020 10:28 AM

In Windows for FX 83xx Series processors it will always show 4 "Physical" cores and 8 "Logical Cores". This is normal.

I have a FX8350 and this is what Windows Task Manager shows:

This is because each CPU Physical core has 2 logical cores.

In CPU-Z is shows my processor with 8 cores and 8 threads: