[SOLVED] I5 10400F has 6 cores but shows 2 cores

[Haad Khan]

I recently bought a PC a few weeks back but due to no graphic card i got to use it today
The specs are
i5 10400F
8gb 2666 ram
h410mh gigabyte board
and gtx 960
i opened task manager and found out it was showing 2 cores while the processer has 6 cores
i used specy and cpuz and they both showed my processer had 2 cores and 4 threads
i used msconfig boot optioned and it showed same
i bought the cpu pin pack new idk whats wrong can someone help please

 

[BogdanH]

Motherboard is new?.. Anyway, try to reset BIOS to default.

 

[logainofhades]

Do a cmos reset.

 

[geofelt]

Go to the boot option where you can set the number of threads you have.

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the box where you can select the number of threads should be left unchecked.
That will give you the max number of available threads.
I might guess that for whatever reason, the box is checked and you have specified 2 threads.
The number of processors should always be 1.

There is a possibility that you bought a fake processor.