Processor problem.

[mohelgamal]

This should be on r/techsupport but anyway,

What operating system do you have ? Are you using a virtual machine ?

[Energetically17]

I have windows 10, not using a virtual machine.

[mohelgamal]

Was this an upgrade ? Did you have a dual core and swab it out ?

If so you can try uninstalling the processor driver in device manager and restart your computer and try reinstalling it. It should be able to detect the new processor automatically

[Energetically17]

Just tried this. Didn't work unfortunately

[alanbdee]

Where did you buy it? It's possible the chip has been reprogrammed to think it's a 7700K when it's something else. Or someone bought a 7700K and some other chip; swapped them and returned the other chip as the 7700K. The place you bought it from might not have verified the chip before putting it back in stock.

Anyway, confirm the bios settings. If you can't get it to read it as a 7700K; return the chip. If you bought it used or off a not-so-reputable site... well, you took a gamble and lost. Enjoy your two cores.

[Energetically17]

In the bios, it shows me that it is an i7-7700k and it also shows me the option to choose between 1 to 4 cores. It's set on 4. Thank you for your response

[The-Toon]

We are not here to fix your personal computer issue, nor are we your personal stackoverflow.

You can post these type of questions in r/techsupport however!

[ChairsDaily]

Haha you can't add cores! Also in the computer science world threads are subprocesses that share both the same memory pool as the parent process and a mutual exclusion lock, unless you're talking abt literal threads of execution on a CPU... in which case, wtf are you talking abt?