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i7 8700k loads in windows as a dual core
Topic Started: Mar 23 2018, 08:26 AM (3 Views)
MarkGraham

Hello,

I just upgraded to an i7 8700K and its sitting in an MSI SLI Plus board. It for some reason loads into windows as a 2 core/4 thread CPU and damn,is everything sluggish. The i5 I had before was way faster! In the BIOS,it looks like all 6 cores are active and hyper threading is enabled. I Do not understand why. I have the latest BIOS update and from what I can tell,everything should be working fine on the BIOS end of things. Both CPU-Z and Core Temp read it as an i7 8700K,only with 2 cores/4 threads. Windows 10 has no activation issues and while I am currently installing all the fancy MSI software,I really doubt that will effect this. Is there a BIOS setting I am missing? It should automatically enable all 6 cores,which it looks like it does because,as I said before, the BIOS shows 6 cores and has HT enabled. Someome please help?

Please help.

I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.

References:-
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3668080/8700k-loads-windows-dual-core.html
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Thanks
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