Upgrading computer

linnemeyerhere · 14 Sep 2013

That's your research to do as local craiglist and such will drive your market. I would look to donate and take a tax deduction as I suspect it's not worth much.

la321 · 24 Sep 2013

i have a laptop lenovo it shows 4 cores in taskmanager but in cpuz it shows 2 cores i've been reading that cpuz detects the wrong number of cores sometimes. i went into msconfig and selected 4 cores since that was the maximum restarted computer that didn't work

linnemeyerhere · 24 Sep 2013

la321,
What's your question here? Sounds like a new thread should be started?

la321 · 24 Sep 2013

my question is how do i get the correct numbers to show. i will be getting a computer built and if the incorrect cores will not show on it i want to know how to fix the issue on it

linnemeyerhere · 24 Sep 2013

Are you using the latest version of CPUZ ?

Dwarf · 24 Sep 2013

Both CPU-Z and Task Manager are reporting correctly. CPU-Z reports the actual physical cores on the CPU, in your case 2. If the CPU is capable of hyper-threading (i.e. each core can act as 2 virtual cores), then Task Manager will report as 4 cores.

To verify this, what does CPU-Z report as the model number of the CPU?

la321 · 24 Sep 2013

i was reading on tomshardware some people had an eight core processor cpu-z detected 4 cores taskmanager reported 8 they had to change some settings so cpuz could detect the 8 cores it was the same for someone with 2 cores cpuz was detecting 1 when they have a 2 core processor i read that cpu-z sometimes detects wrong information then after they changed some settings cpu-z detected 8 cores along with taskmanager i have i5 2450

Dwarf · 24 Sep 2013

Here you go: ARK | Intel® Core)

Note the # of Cores and # of Threads showing 2 and 4 respectively.

la321 · 24 Sep 2013

oh ok i've seen others that have had the amd fx 8350 that have 8 cores which i'm getting cpu-z shows 8 but the settings had to be changed i think something enabling the extra cores