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My Computer is telling me that I have two processors.
I have one P4 3.20Ghz in a Titan Motherboard with a SiS 648FX Chipset.
On windows task manager/performance/cpu usage history,
the window is split although it gives the same graph in both windows!
Under Computer Management, in Device Manager on the components tree, under processors there are two identical discriptions of my P4!
I've tryed deleting one twice, a different one each time, but they both come back!
Has this happened to anyone elses before?

2007-04-20 23:34:49 · 2 answers · asked by Albinoballs 5 in Computers & Internet Hardware Desktops

2 answers

You do have 2 processors, one of them is possibly virtual, you either have a P4 with hyper-threading, a dual core processor or a core 2 duo, the first one uses redundant processor cycles from the main processor to create a virtual second one, the dual core and core 2 duo has 2 processing cores on the same chip.

Everythings as it should be.

the second processors will handle different software threads at the same time, it doesn't turn a 3.2Ghz machine into a 6.4Ghz one, what it will do is allow any program that can multi thread to run alongside another thus making operation of your machine smoother by doing more at the same time.

2007-04-20 23:44:38 · answer #1 · answered by thecoldvoiceofreason 6 · 2 0

Your P4 Titan GA-8564FX uses a socket 478, so your processor is the P4 3.2E (90nm Prescott, S478). Even in the early Prescotts on Socket 478, Hyper-Threading support was already available. Hyper-Threading makes it appear you have 2 processors available to handle multi-threads. Read more here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading

2007-04-21 00:09:28 · answer #2 · answered by Karz 7 · 1 0

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