FX 6350 Thread issue

[Beetle_1]

I've got a FX 6350 "six" core processor. I know that it has 3 cores and 6 threads. But as of right now it's showing 3 cores, 3 threads. I recently received my motherboard(970a-g43+) from MSI as it was RMA'd due to the PCI slots randomly giving out. They sent back what looks to be a new/refurbished board.

I'm not a "wiz" when it comes to CPU's or all that fancy stuff. So I'm stumped as what to do.

 

[Faktion]

The AMD 6350 is not a "true" six core.

It has 3 bulldozer cores. For some purposes it is a 6 thread CPU and for some it is a 3 core.

It is not quite the same as Intel's HyperThreading but it is also not the same as having a true 6-core CPU.

 

[Beetle_1]

I fixed the issue. An option within the Bios wasn't set to "auto" for some reason. Swapped it back to auto and now it's back to normal.