Quad Core AMD CPU Only Shows 2 Cores in Task Manager

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PyreticFyre

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Hi, I recently finished building a new PC, but in task manager, it says I only have two cores and four logical cores. The logical core number is correct, but I have a quad core CPU. I've tried using msconfig in the boot menu, it didn't work. I'm in high performance and couldn't force them to activate using intensive processes. CPU-Z and whatnot does register that I have four cores, so I don't know what's going on. Any help would be great.

Specs:
CPU: AMD A10-5800K Quad-Core APU (3.8 GHz) with Radeon HD 7660D Graphics
GPU: GTX 660
Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A85X-UP4
HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200 RPM
PSU: Coolermaster 650W (I don't know the exact model)
 
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FXingSerious
Your CPU has 4 cores they are only shown in the task manager as logical processors because this is how Windows recognizes them. Nothing to panic about, I have owned a lot of AMD CPU's and this is how the cores have always being represented.

If the graph in the task mamager bothers you, just right click on the CPU graph and click on "change graph to..." to make task manager display the 4 cores in a separate graph for each.
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Your CPU has 4 cores they are only shown in the task manager as logical processors because this is how Windows recognizes them. Nothing to panic about, I have owned a lot of AMD CPU's and this is how the cores have always being represented.

If the graph in the task mamager bothers you, just right click on the CPU graph and click on "change graph to..." to make task manager display the 4 cores in a separate graph for each.
 
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