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Re: [OT] Processor Specs
kermitthefrog01uk wrote:
> Now, I have had no need to build my own PC for a few years. So I am
> not quite as up to date with whats new in Intel land as I was. But I
> got a new ASUS m/board and Intel P4 640 socket 775 3.2Ghz processor.
> I was under the impression that this was a single core processor,
> although the motherboard supports dual core, as that was all I could
> afford. The box confirms this is the processor I have got.
> Yet in Device Manager, two processors are listed. In fact Task
> Manager lists 2 processors as well...
>
It probably support Hyper Threading, which allows the cpu to process two
instructions streams (threads) simultaneously in a single processor core.
Jim
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