my fx 8350 in task manager says 4 cores, is this what its supposed to say?

[SaskGaming]

my fx 8350 when i go in task manager says 4 cores 8 logical processors. I do have the 8 cores enabled in the msconfig thingy so its not that, thanks in advance everyone

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

The FX-8350 has 4 modules with 2 cores in each module 4x2 = 8.

 

[CountMike]

It is so but Task manager should show 8 cores. Check Device manager if all cores are present.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Windows 7 detects the 8350 as 8 cores , 8.1 and 10 recognize the modules and shows them as 4 cores.

 

[Ecky]

An i7 is also a 4c/8t CPU. To my knowledge, the FX series are shown as 4c/8t CPUs because they need to be handled in the same way a hyperthreaded Intel CPU is handled. Because the cores in an FX share resources, you don't want to load up both cores in a module if there are other cores free, much like you don't want to load up both threads in an i7's core when there are still other cores free. Loading up both cores in a module will result in a pretty bad performance penalty, because FX cores share something like 70% of their resources and are not "complete" cores on their own.

 

[CountMike]

W10 shows all cores and so did W8/8.1, 6 in my case so should also show 8 with 8xxx processors.