The other day I decided to bump up my AMD FX-4130's clock speed to 4.0 from its usual 3.8 to see if I could get some more performance out of it. I DID NOT MESS WITH ANY VOLTAGE OR ANY OTHER SETTING BESIDES CLOCK SPEED.
I ran CPUID CPU-Z benchmark with improved results afterward. I decided to test it in a game so I started up CS:GO and noticed that instead of my usual 150+ FPS I was now getting 30-40 FPS.
At first I thought this was no big deal so I just reverted the overclock and got back on.
Same FPS. I tested some other games such as Fallout: New Vegas and Alien: Isolation to see if it affected them as well. Fallout got to the main menu and then crashed on me. Alien Isolation started up and I could play a survival round but after I died and tried to restart the round the game crashed on me as well.
So I went into my BIOS and from there I reset it to the optimized defaults and the fail-safe defaults with neither of them being effective. I removed the CMOS battery and still had the issue.
From there I tried several fixes I found online and I eventually resorted to reinstalling Windows 10 through the reset option in the Settings. This still did not fix it so I removed my processor and put it back in and this did not fix it as well. I had noticed with CS:GO that whether or not I had multi-core rendering on or off didn't matter and I received the same amount of FPS. I decided to dig into that and everywhere I saw said that "Since its and AMD quad-core, Windows 10 will only show you 2 of the cores due to their architecture." Now I know this is true but before the issue, Task Manager had always shown that I had 4 cores and so did the resource manager. Now they will both only show 2 cores. CPUID CPU-Z was only showing 2 cores 2 threads and AMD OverDrive was also showing the same thing: 2 cores where it used to show 4.
I checked the BIOS and in the CPU settings I have all 4 cores enabled but I can't seem to figure out how or why this happened let alone how to fix it.
Literally any and all ideas would be appreciated right now as I have no idea what to do anymore.
Specs:
AMD FX-4130
AMD Radeon HD 7850
Kingston HyperX 4gb RAM
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
550W 80+ bronze PSU (I forget the brand)
(Please don't criticize my PC specs, I built this sometime ago with a small budget)
I ran CPUID CPU-Z benchmark with improved results afterward. I decided to test it in a game so I started up CS:GO and noticed that instead of my usual 150+ FPS I was now getting 30-40 FPS.
At first I thought this was no big deal so I just reverted the overclock and got back on.
Same FPS. I tested some other games such as Fallout: New Vegas and Alien: Isolation to see if it affected them as well. Fallout got to the main menu and then crashed on me. Alien Isolation started up and I could play a survival round but after I died and tried to restart the round the game crashed on me as well.
So I went into my BIOS and from there I reset it to the optimized defaults and the fail-safe defaults with neither of them being effective. I removed the CMOS battery and still had the issue.
From there I tried several fixes I found online and I eventually resorted to reinstalling Windows 10 through the reset option in the Settings. This still did not fix it so I removed my processor and put it back in and this did not fix it as well. I had noticed with CS:GO that whether or not I had multi-core rendering on or off didn't matter and I received the same amount of FPS. I decided to dig into that and everywhere I saw said that "Since its and AMD quad-core, Windows 10 will only show you 2 of the cores due to their architecture." Now I know this is true but before the issue, Task Manager had always shown that I had 4 cores and so did the resource manager. Now they will both only show 2 cores. CPUID CPU-Z was only showing 2 cores 2 threads and AMD OverDrive was also showing the same thing: 2 cores where it used to show 4.
I checked the BIOS and in the CPU settings I have all 4 cores enabled but I can't seem to figure out how or why this happened let alone how to fix it.
Literally any and all ideas would be appreciated right now as I have no idea what to do anymore.
Specs:
AMD FX-4130
AMD Radeon HD 7850
Kingston HyperX 4gb RAM
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
550W 80+ bronze PSU (I forget the brand)
(Please don't criticize my PC specs, I built this sometime ago with a small budget)
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