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    AMD FX-6300 significantly better performance if only 4 cores enabled

    Drumroll please... Problem is sorted. Thanks so much for your help on this. I would not have resolved this as quickly without your assistance. TL;DR - Changing my power settings from Powersave to Balanced or Performance. (Plus installing KB2645594 & KB2646060 but I don't know if they actually...
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    AMD FX-6300 significantly better performance if only 4 cores enabled

    Thanks. Because it was altering the CPU settings that caused the change, I was leaning away from it being a GPU issue. Isn't it the case though that, regardless of Valley's usefulness as a benchmark tool for my system, it is still concerning that the results are worse with the extra cores? I...
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    AMD FX-6300 significantly better performance if only 4 cores enabled

    AMD FX-6300 Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (Not sure rev, I think 3 or 4) Gigabyte HD7770 1GB 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM So I was tweaking my overclock settings (CPU and Graphics) and using Unigine Valley to benchmark. Last night I managed to get small increases which i was happy with. Today I...