Once you are aware of how to know which processor your PC has and how many cores it is , you will surely want to take full advantage of the potential of the equipment. Given this, it is essential to activate all the cores of your Windows computer and thus obtain the best possible performance.
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- What happens to your PC if all the cores in your system are activated?
- Check if you have all the CPU cores activated
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of enabling the processors to function?
- May be useful if not all kernels are displayed natively
- Automatic configuration is usually more effective
- What are the steps to activate the processors of your Windows computer?
- With Windows 10 and 11
- In Windows version 8 and 7
What happens to your PC if all the cores in your system are activated?
When building a team, it is important to know basic aspects such as what the processor cores are and what they are for . Informing yourself about it, you will realize that the processor cores are essential to obtain good performance , therefore, it is important that you are using all of them in the system.
Having all the CPU cores will take advantage of the full potential of the equipment. It is useless to have a multi-core processor, for example, 6 cores and that only 2 are working, as you can imagine, in this case you are not taking advantage of the potential of the computer . Given this, it is convenient to activate all the cores of the equipment. In any case, it is recommended to do a verification first.
Check if you have all the CPU cores activated
There are several ways to check that you have all your CPU cores activated, but perhaps the easiest is by using the Task Manager . Therefore, the first thing to do is access the Task Manager, to do this, press the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del and select the Task Manager tool.
When the Administrator opens, you should go to the ‘Performance’ tab, there you will see the CPU option. Here, right click on the graph on the right of the screen and select ‘Change Graph to’ and activate ‘Logic Processors’ . After the above, all active processors will be shown, simply check that the number of active processors is the same as that of your CPU.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of enabling the processors to function?
By default all cores will be activated in Windows, however, sometimes it is convenient to enter the configuration options of the CPU cores. If so, there are some occasions in which finding out the number of cores that the processor has and activating these options may be convenient, then we will tell you the good and the bad of this function .
May be useful if not all kernels are displayed natively
Sometimes a configuration error causes all the CPU cores to not work. Given this, accessing the boot functions and forcing the detection of the cores that the processor has can help. In any case, it is something very rare and most of the time the automatic configuration is better.
Automatic configuration is usually more effective
By default the startup configuration is automatic, which means that all CPU processors will load. Even so, as we have pointed out, sometimes after updating the processor with a new one, it is necessary to configure the cores. In any case, automatic configuration is really recommended in most cases.
What are the steps to activate the processors of your Windows computer?
Just as knowing how much VRAM a Windows computer has is relevant to performance, activating the processors or noticing that they are all working is vitally important . Next, we show you how to activate the processors on your Windows PC.
With Windows 10 and 11
- Open the ‘Run’ tool by pressing Windows key + R.
- Inside Run type ‘msconfig’ and hit Enter.
- Once in the System Settings, select ‘Boot’.
- Click on ‘Advanced options’.
- Here you can select the number of active cores, to do this, click on ‘Number of processors’ and select the total number that appears, which should be equal to the number of cores on your CPU.
- On the other hand, you canalso deactivate the option ‘Number of processors’ , by doing this, you will automatically configure the number of cores of the equipment and they should all be selected.
In Windows version 8 and 7
- Press Windows + R
- The Run tool will open. ‘There type’ msconfig ‘and press Enter.
- Go to the ‘Startup’ section and click on ‘Advanced options’
- As in Windows 10, you can activate ‘Number of processors’and select the number of cores that will be active.
- Remember that if you deactivate ‘Number of processors’, all the cores of the team will be automatically selected.
