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So recently, I upgraded from i3 540 to i7 870, but the booting is slow as hell, it takes minutes for the desktop to load its taskbar icons and after the bios it takes 10seconds for the circle animation to appear. Im using windows 10.
I re-applied the thermal paste after upgrading and temps are fine. They are between 40-50c. Also I have reset the CMOS and I even re-installed the windows, still didn't help. Any solution?
 
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All the specs please. The quality of the educated guesses tends to be proportional to the quality of the information provided!
 
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The previous one was faster. This one takes ages to boot. I use IDE HDD
The disk usage is normal
And in bios I went over to CPU configuration and there was a setting called "Active Processor Cores"
It was set to all but when I clicked it, it had these options "All, 1, 2" while my new processors has 4 cores and the old one had 2 cores. Other processor information ia being detected properly in bios
The ratio is set to 22 which is the max and gives 2.93ghz speed which is its original base speed
 
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It was unchecked first and the pc was still slow so I tried to check it to see if it fixed the problem but the speed was still slow so that setting didn't affect the speed
 
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It may be necessary to update the I7-870 microcode. It's strange because I thought "windows update" updates it automatically.
With HWINFO64 you can see the version of microcode that it has (it appears below the number of cores and threads.
I do not know how to see which is the last available microcode or whether the update can be forced or if it is safe to do so (sorry, I do not know anymore).

You can also try download the utility "Intel® Processor Diagnostic Tool" in case it gives any clue
 
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Intel Tool didn't give any clue, but HWNFO64 did. See this:
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The ratio is unlocked in bios though, but the max it shows is 22 which was the i3's max ratio. The bios is somehow containing the old processor's info, but I did reset the CMOS and used factory settings.

Any help?

 
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