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    Need to lower the price of my build and recommendations please

    You could get by with a dual core (with hyperthreading) which would increase cpu time, but still give you 50+fps in all games that rely on the cpu. Also, XFX (and probably all graphics card manufacturers) come with a lifetime warranties so if you could find one used or refurbished that is still...
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    NZXT Phantom 820 case - "Wide SATA" cable, what is it? where do I plug it in?

    That's power for your case lights. Plug it into a SATA power cable from your power supply. You should read the user guide to learn how to use the lights on that case (if you don't know how) because they're probably half of the cost of it, and they're really cool.
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    Windows 7 recognizes 2/6 cores (Phenom II 1090T).

    Windows updated and it was fixed.
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    Windows 7 recognizes 2/6 cores (Phenom II 1090T).

    Thanks for the attention, that's where I found that they were all enabled though. I changed it to manual and then 0-5 appeared with their values as enabled.
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    Windows 7 recognizes 2/6 cores (Phenom II 1090T).

    Also, there were like two other threads that seem to have helped someone find the answer to this, but all of the answer posts were deleted, so it looked like the people were talking to themselves and somehow fixed it.
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    Windows 7 recognizes 2/6 cores (Phenom II 1090T).

    Big fan of 75% of the advice that is doled to the general public on this forum. I just updated the bios on my MSI 890FXA-GD70 motherboard, however the bios still recognizes all 6 cores (and are enabled) but the OS doesn't recognize more than two. I have tried unchecking "number of processors"...