Re: single core processor appears to be two?
- From: "JW" <nospam@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:59:11 -0700
Sounds like you may have the p4 3E 3.0 GHz HTSingle which is a Hyper
Threaded single CPU unit so it will look like 2 CPUs to Windows and will
provide about 80% of the performance of 2 actual CPUs.
"winidgit" <winidgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ive never claimed to be the original computer "wizard", but I have
something
that totally confuses me.
I've "rebuilt" my boss's PC for him (new,larger HDD and faster "chip") and
reloaded Windows XP Pro SP2 on this - but as I was doing a "burn-in"
something "peculiar" showed up that I am unable to explain...
The SiSandra software I was using for 'burning in" apparently shows me two
processor cores on this system which is simply a P-4 3.0 GHz single core
processor...(???).
(At least that's what I thought the box said....Pentium 4 3E 800Mhz FSB 1
MB
L2 cache socket 478 - yup, that's what it says, alright...)
Thinking something was amiss (software-wise with SiSandra), I shut down
the
"burn-in" and looked at Windows' own "System Information" from the
Accessories group ..., and it also shows what would appear to be two
processors when I examine the "System Summary". I see two listings for
"Processor", each indicates:
"x86 Family 15 Model 4 Stepping 1 GenuineIntel ~3000Mhz", one directly
after the previous.
Well,this boggles me.... What the heck?
I've done a thousand installs of Windows and NEVER seen anything like
this...
This is a "brand new" install of Windows I did just last night (with
apparently no "issues" during installation) from a "brand new" XP Pro
disk.
This system has two 512MB DDR-400 DIMMS installed and a single Seagate 80
GB
SATA disk on an MSI PM8M-V integrated motherboard.
Anyone have a clue as to what I'm encountering here? Bad M/B?
Everything SEEMS to work flawlessly but (being the anal-retentive that I
am)
things like this "disturb" me....
Clues?
.
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