Why is my CPU running at half speed?

Kaden Thompson

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On all games my cpu stays bellow 50%. I tried a benchmark and found out that it is only testing 4/8 cores. I am aware that the 8320 has 4 physical cores split by 2 logical cores to make 8 but people on youtube are getting x8. My cores are not parked and I have tried different drivers, driver sweep, bios update, bios reset, etc. I just replaced the psu thinking that that was the problem. I think the GTX 770 and FX 8320 were never ment to be. Unigine Benchmark results below. Please help.


FPS:
37.4
Score:
943
Min FPS:
15.0
Max FPS:
88.8
System

Platform:
Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit
CPU model:
AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor (3511MHz) X4 Why is it 4?
GPU model:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 9.18.13.3523 (2048MB) x1
Settings

Render:
Direct3D11
Mode:
1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen
Preset
Custom
Quality
Ultra
Tessellation:
Extreme
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dont worry about that op i too get only x4 in unigine valley under windows 8 but im benchmarking atm my fx-8320 is stable @ 4.75ghz as im typing this and i can assure you that all my cores (physical or logical who cares) are working their butt off in pcmark my score atm for overall cpu performance is above core i7-3770 wich is a chip that is worth more than twice the fx im using atm...but yeah in unigine it does show x4 i think its normal..

AnEwG

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Your processor doesn't have 4 physical cores, it has 4 physical modules, with each module containing two integer cores sharing resources and two symmetric FPUs with 128 bit width that merge and operate together as a single FPU. Windows NT 6.2 indicates that your PC is running windows 8, which recognizes each module as a physical core however to solve thread scheduling problems associated with the processor architecture. There is a possibility that the other people who were running the benchmark were using Windows 7 instead.
 

paitjsu sadff

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dont worry about that op i too get only x4 in unigine valley under windows 8 but im benchmarking atm my fx-8320 is stable @ 4.75ghz as im typing this and i can assure you that all my cores (physical or logical who cares) are working their butt off in pcmark my score atm for overall cpu performance is above core i7-3770 wich is a chip that is worth more than twice the fx im using atm...but yeah in unigine it does show x4 i think its normal..
 
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