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i7 8700k being detected as 4 cores 8 threads

Enad1
Level 7
Hello, as the title states, my i7 8700k is being detected as 4 cores 8 threads by HWInfo, CPUZ as well as the Task Manager. I'm on the ASUS Z370-F motherboard.

Not really sure where to go from here as I've never come across and issue like this.
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So I managed to fix it.

For some reason, in MSConfig it was limiting Windows to 8 threads. I unchecked the box and it works fine now. It's weird though because I previously had an 8 core 16 thread CPU on this same Windows install and that was working just fine.

Anyway, SOLVED!

Enad1 wrote:
So I managed to fix it.

For some reason, in MSConfig it was limiting Windows to 8 threads. I unchecked the box and it works fine now. It's weird though because I previously had an 8 core 16 thread CPU on this same Windows install and that was working just fine.

Anyway, SOLVED!


Strange! Glad it was an easy fix.
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Nate152
Moderator
Great to hear you got it solved and was an easy fix.

Thank you for reporting back.