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Details required :. Cancel Submit. CmdrKeene MVP. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to CmdrKeene's post on July 17, In reply to redhonker's post on July 17, No, Windows sees all of them, that's why Task Manager says 8 next to "logical processors". So it's using them all. Why does it say "Cores: 4" then?

Thanks Because you only have 4 cores. You have 4 physical cores and 8 logical processors. In reply to d0gknees's post on July 18, Does Microsoft use different terminology from the rest of the tech world?

AMD also market this as 8-core Processor. Are they cheating? Experimental Tests PCMark Vantage Gaming Related Tests High Resolution Gaming Performance Power Consumption and Performance per Watt Overclocking Performance per Dollar Closing Thoughts Next ». Previous A tale of two tiny Llano motherboards. Next The early bird gets the Bulldozer. About The Author. Ryan Shrout. Related Posts. Anonymous on October 13, at pm. Thanks Reply. KILLfactor on October 13, at pm.

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Bad hardware, no just bad programming. Kenmore on November 4, at pm. Anonymous on January 11, at pm. But some thing we need to But some thing we need to keep in mind 8 core will be only fully support by windows 8 right now amd and microsoft working hand in hand to place a patch for at least bost the 8 core in windows 7 Reply.

Anonymous on March 6, at pm. Jeff on April 5, at am. Madhavi on June 15, at am. Anonymous on July 15, at am. A major advantage of the is the ability to run faster memory. If I had to guess I'd say that we may see the next big step forward with Windows 8. AMD was pretty honest when it described the performance gains FX owners can expect to see from this update. Without any big promises I wasn't expecting the Bulldozer vs. Sandy Bridge standings to change post-update, but I wanted to run some tests just to be sure.

A four-module, eight-core Bulldozer The bigger issue with Bulldozer isn't one of core semantics, but rather how threads get scheduled on those cores. Post Your Comment Please log in or sign up to comment. So it's all good but nothing startling. Privacy Policy. Contact Us. Terms of Use. Show Full Site. All rights reserved.