AMD FX 8350 maxing out core 3 and 6

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Hello,

I recently just bought/installed a new AMD FX-8350 and I noticed it often maxes out core 3 and 6 while leaving the others barely touched. Is there an issue/problem or is this normal?

Thanks for your help! I really appreciate it!
 
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nostall
I run the 8120 and have seen the same thing; it is just how they work, most of the time.
Remember also, most games are not programmed for multi-threading and I don't think any are able to take full advantage of all eight cores all the time.
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thanks for the quick responses guys! I havent had much time to try it out with games yet but I just noticed they jumped between 90-98% full load while playing "South Park The Stick of Truth" while all of the other cores jumped between 0-10%
 
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I run the 8120 and have seen the same thing; it is just how they work, most of the time.
Remember also, most games are not programmed for multi-threading and I don't think any are able to take full advantage of all eight cores all the time.
 
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try other games/applications, the reason can be because the game (or whatever) is only built to use 2 cores (or even 1).

try superPi (cannot remember if this is the correct name), it can create threads to stress all cores available. Then you can monitor
 
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Very few applications can load 8 cores uniformly. Moreover, the operating system may "park" some of your cores when they're not needed. This is important because on AMD CPUs and Intel CPUs with hyperthreading, pairs of "logical cores" share some hardware resource with each other. So if you have mostly two threads of execution running of say AMD CPU with 4 cores, you don't want them to run on cores that share L2 cache with each other.
 
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