dxdiag showing only 2 cores from my x4 955 !!!

when i ran dxdiag it showed i had 2 cpus only and also the task manager showed only 2 cores , while on Windows device manager it said 4 !! whats with this ? shall i format the pc ?

cpu-z said i had 2 cores ! i formatted and now its back to 4 !! whats up with that ?

Very, Very strange and a bit disturbing.

maybe you had some power saving feature turned on.i heard somewhre that amds coolnquiet technology turns off cores to save power

cpu-z said i had 2 cores ! i formatted and now its back to 4 !! whats up with that ?

sentenced83

i had the cool 'n' quiet feature on ( in the bios) , bs i had two even when i was playing , offcourse after i installed it i had a clean install .. could it be becaue oe the motherboard ? its a cheap msi 770 c35 !

i'll turn off the cool 'n' quiet thingy.. and see if it stays with 4 cores

i had the cool 'n' quiet feature on ( in the bios) , bs i had two even when i was playing , offcourse after i installed it i had a clean install .. could it be becaue oe the motherboard ? its a cheap msi 770 c35 !

i'll turn off the cool 'n' quiet thingy.. and see if it stays with 4 cores

sentenced83

i formatted the pc and it worked for a while (4 cores), now its back to 2 cores !!

could it be because of the stupid motherboard ?

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=909708here's the image from CPu-Z

it seems to me like its defective. i would just rma it or return it.

how can i know if its because of the mobo or the cpu itself ?

Cpu's ethier work or dont work, theres really no between like that.04dcarraher

i know ! but it works fine then stops after a couple of days

! , it happened 3 times ! so i thought maybe it has something to do with the mobo Msi 770-c35

i doubt it. any other things in the bios. intels have SW Single core, and sw dual core for quads im pretty sure. also, do a system restore, if when you restore it and it shows 4 again, it is the os or the mbaord. also, if you get a chance, try to benchmark it and compare your benchmarks to others of the same cpu.