FX 8350 black help

[KiLLMasTer20]

Hey guys i got a FX 8350 and on the box it says its a 8 core but in my pc it shows up as a 4 core with 8 threads is this right i was looking to buy a 8 core cpu not a 4 core one whats up ?

 

[HEXiT]

yes its right.
its just windows doesnt give the correct description.
its a 4 module 8 core part.

each module consists of 2 physical instruction cores a shared math unit and some other bits.

your cpu has 4 modules so 8 physical cores.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_FX_microprocessors

 

[KiLLMasTer20]

so it is a 8 core 8 threads cpu when i run http://www.piriform.com/speccy it shows 8 and 8 so i dont know

 

[HEXiT]

core yes, 4 modules made up of paired cores sharing an fpu go together and make up the 8 cores.
in real terms its amd's answer to intels quad core 8 thread cpu's

in some situations the 8 cores of the amd can out perform the 4 on intel.
but generally intel has the stronger per core performance.
which means its four cores with hyperthreading can keep up and in a lot of cases do better than amd's 8 core.

so in essence to your question yes its an 8 core cpu. if you look at it sideways with the right amount of squint.

 

[Suzuki@1473780084@1473780163]

FX 6 shows up as 6 threads in Task Manager. Windows doesn't show you cores, if you push it in a stress test, it'll 100% all 8 threads.

 

[HEXiT]

yes mate thats purely down to lazy programming on microsofts part. the o.s doesn't differentiate between cores and modules.