my computer isn't recognizing my new cpu

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gallagherdayle96

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okay so i posted another thread a couple days ago about my new cpu not working but safe to say i've fixed that now. But of course I have another problem. my new cpu isn't being recognized when i click on pc info, instead it's still recognizing my computer as having my old cpu installed which was a amd fx 8150, and now i have an amd fx 8350.

my motherboard is a gigabyte ga-7lmt-usb3 version 1.4, i upgraded to the latest bios which is f4, and i also checked if my mobo could support this cpu and safe to say it can.

does anyone have any idea why this is happening thanks. i can access my computer fine and use the internet and gaming fine too, just wondering if this means that i'm not getting the full power of the amd fx 8350.
 
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The board supports the CPU if it boots and runs. I don't know exactly what "info page" you are talking about but it could be that either that program or your OS simply didn't pick up on "enough" of a hardware change to cause it to update what it displays for a CPU, or that the program isn't new enough to recognize the 8350 and just calls it an 8150.

I'd either go download a known-good program like CPU-Z or put in a bootable Linux CD and fire that up and see what you get in /proc/cpuinfo. Both of those things directly query the CPU itself every time they are run to see what the CPU actually is.
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The board supports the CPU if it boots and runs. I don't know exactly what "info page" you are talking about but it could be that either that program or your OS simply didn't pick up on "enough" of a hardware change to cause it to update what it displays for a CPU, or that the program isn't new enough to recognize the 8350 and just calls it an 8150.

I'd either go download a known-good program like CPU-Z or put in a bootable Linux CD and fire that up and see what you get in /proc/cpuinfo. Both of those things directly query the CPU itself every time they are run to see what the CPU actually is.
 
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gallagherdayle96

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thanks for the suggestion to use cpu-z, when i had a look with it, it recognized my cpu as being the amd fx 8350, but my pc info that you can click on when using windows 8 is still recognizing it as the old one is this anything to worry about thanks.
 
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