Windows 10: My CPU(I5-7500) is hiding cores !!

Hello Forum,


I have a big problem with my I5-7500 and that's disturbing my work and my free time. I started looking over to see Why my PC is running hard and slowly. And I looked over my GPU nothing wrong, I looked over at my SSD and HDD no problems and then when I looked at my CPU Degrees I saw that my CPU is running only 3 Cores instead of 4 and the bad news are that it happend to me in July aswell and I tought that reinstalling my OS is going to work. Anyways the problem arrived again and it's damaging my PC. Can someone tell me what do to?

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Intel Gives Core i3 and Core i5 Dual-Core Processors K0 Stepping Update

Intel is giving some existing 32 nm "Clarkdale" based Core i3 and Core i5 processors an update. The processors will transition to the new K0 stepping from the existing C2 stepping. The parts that will be made on the K0 silicon are Core i3 models 530 (new sSPEC: SLBX7), 540 (new sSPEC: SLBTD) and Core i5 models 650 (new sSPEC: SLBTJ), 660/661 (SLBTK/SLBTB), 670 (SLBTL). Newer and upcoming models such as the i3-550, i3-560, i5-665K, and i5-680 are already being built on the K0 stepping die. Motherboards will require a BIOS update to support the new K0 stepping processors.

The K0 stepping change includes the following highlights:

• New S-spec and MM numbers for the converting products
• Extended CPUID will change from 0x00020652 to 0x00020655
• Host RevID will change from 0x12 to 0x18
• K0 stepping package is pin compatible with C2 stepping package
• Adds Processor Context ID (PCID) support

The revised older SKUs that are built on K0 stepping will be market-available by October 16.

 

2 cores

My cpu has four cores but windows is only detecting two cores my cpu is Intel core i5 4460 lga 1150 why

 

Slow Performance in Surface Pro 4 - Core i5 8GB


Sup guys! I'm resorting to this forum, because I know the caliber of people that roam around here.

I have a Surface Pro 4 - i5 w/ 8GB of RAM, and it's been painfully slow to do basic tasks. Excel, Web Browsing , Opening the Task Manager takes a lot; mouse lag; and maybe some coding with Visual Studio. I have a laptop with an i7 4700MQ and my laptop feels way snappier.

I thought that I wouldn't need the two extra cores since I was doing some basic work, but I don't know if I'm right...

So, this is what I've done:

1. Checked Startup items. Almost bare bones. No Java Updater, only Dropbox, f.lux, Windows Defender.
2. Ran sfc /scannow and chkdsk - No problems found.
3. Scanned for viruses (Malwarebytes). Everything clean.
4. CPU temp is great at 56°C.
5. CPU, Disk and RAM usage do not top 100% when experiencing these issues.
6. I've refreshed and Clean Install (From USB Drive), and I'm still experiencing issues.

Is there a way for me to track the usage and see which programs may be causing some sort of distortion? Even though it's an ultrabook i5 it should be way more than enough for the type of tasks that I'm doing (I think)

Any suggestions or ideas?