HOW MANY PROCESSERS DOES MY COMPUTER HAVE BECAUSE AT THE SPECS SCREEN IT SAYS 3.00 GHZ Twice?

Question

WHEN I GO TO MY CONTROL PANEL AND GO TO SYSTEM IT SAYS I HAVE A 3 GHZ PENTIUM 4 PROCESSER BUT IT SAY 3GHZ TWICE DOES THIS MEAN I HAVE 2 PROCESSERS? OH YEA ALSO IM RUNNING WINDOWS VISTA,512MB DDR2 RAM BUT IT ONLY DETECTS 445 MB CAN SOMEPEOPLE HELP ME WITH MY PROBLEMS?CAN I ALSO GET TIPS TO INCREASE VIDEO PERFORMANCE AND HOE TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE OVERALL THANK ALL ANSWERS WILL BE APPRECIATTED THANX

Answer 1

You either have a Dual Core processor or HyperThreading, which would show up as two physical processors. As for the RAM, if you have an integrated graphics card, it's probably using a chunk of your RAM, which is why it would show up as having less.

Answer 2

CPU GHz at Control Panel, System can be there twice. On my old P4 PC it is:

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.90GHz 1.90 GHz

The first part is read from a character string stored inside the CPU to indicate what the CPU is supposed to be. The second GHz is measured by a program. The second GHz can be lower than the first, like on laptops running in power saving mode. If you had a dual core CPU, it would say Pentium D CPU.

445 MB suggests that you are using a graphics chip on the motherboard that uses 64 MB of the RAM. A good plug-in graphics card would be needed particularly for faster 3D graphics.

512 MB RAM is also rather small for Vista. 1 GB would be better but 2 GB is often recommended.

Answer 3

First, your typing in all caps is making me furious.
Second, you have a hyper-threaded CPU, which shows up as two physical cores. P4s are usually hyper-threaded, but if you just said P4 and really meant PD, it's a dual-core. Also, you likely have integrated graphics, so it eats up some of your RAM because onboard GPUs don't have their own memory, so they leech it from your main RAM.