Re: Why Two CPUs in Task Mgr?

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From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 18:57:44 -0500

Then WHY did you post in a Win2K News Group ?

Dave

"Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
news:QZmdnV9SyJ041jLcRVn-1A@giganews.com...
| Thank you! Yep, one is an XP box and the other is a 2003 box.
|
| -Frank
|
| "neo [mvp outlook]" <neo@online.mvps.org> wrote in message
| news:OsgLsDJ2EHA.3840@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| > It is because of the HyperThread feature in the Intel CPU.
| > yperthreading - Initially referred to as Simultaneous Multi-threading or
| > SMT) allows for a single physical processor to appear to the operating
| > system as two logical processors. The operating system doesn't know the
| > difference and feeds threads to each as if they were indeed separate
| > physical processors.)
| >
| > FWIW, Intel does not recommend Windows 2000 as the operating system of
| > choice if you wish to use hyperthreading. (Need Windows XP (SP1) or
| > Windows 2003).
| >
| > "Frankster" <Frank@SPAM2TRASH.com> wrote in message
| > news:qI6dnbuNkqHe3DLcRVn-tw@giganews.com...
| >>I have two boxes with Hyper Threading CPU's (or whatever! :) )... anyway,
| >>both of these boxes display two CPUs in Task Manager. Neither has two
| >>CPUs. Why?
| >>
| >> -Frank
| >>
| >
| >
|
|

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