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    P4 HT has 2 cores?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by grasshopper, Nov 17, 2008.

  1. grasshopper

    grasshopper Notebook Consultant

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    For some reason, on my desktop, the CPU gadget is reading it as 2 cores and is giving me the performance of the 2 cores? Or is the gadget a fake and just giving out random numbers?

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    grasshopper, Nov 17, 2008
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    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    gengerald, Nov 17, 2008
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    The program is probably not understanding the instructions from the processor and because it is a Hyper Threaded processor it is seen as two cores. A processor with Hyper-Threading enabled is treated by the operating system as two processors instead of one.
     
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    Just like gengerald and Elmolivez have said, Hyper-threading(HT) allows the system to see 2 virtual cores..
     
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    I guess you beat me to it gengerald lol!
     
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    no it does not see two virtual cores, it sees one real core, and one virtual one.
    Tomshardware did some tests a few years back when intel and amd were competing, and I think they said hyperthreading only boosted performance around 5% in some applications, and hurt performance in others.

    Your processor is single core.
    Hyperthreading is virtual, as in an invisible core.

    K-TRON
     
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    X2P, Nov 17, 2008
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