Who still runs single core?

[kptn_kaiserhof]

i agree

[Ships-R-Us]

I really don't know what I have except my task manager is displaying 2 cpu's. Is this a dual core? I have 3gb ddr ram installed. The only game I play is SH4 and it goes fine on a Nvidia 9800GTX+ / 512mb DDR3 ram.

I copied this from the HP site. It's a A747C model. Is this a dinosaur rig?

Hardware
Base processor
Intel Pentium4 520 (P) 2.8 GHz (HT)
•800 MHz Front side bus
•Socket 775
•Hyper Threading technology
Chipset
Intel 915G
Motherboard
•ASUS name: PTGD1-LA
•HP name: Grouper-GL8E

[jazman]

Originally Posted by Ships-R-Us

I really don't know what I have except my task manager is displaying 2 cpu's. Is this a dual core? I have 3gb ddr ram installed. The only game I play is SH4 and it goes fine on a Nvidia 9800GTX+ / 512mb DDR3 ram.

I copied this from the HP site. It's a A747C model. Is this a dinosaur rig?

Hardware
Base processor
Intel Pentium4 520 (P) 2.8 GHz (HT)
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That (HT) means HyperThreaded. That's fake dual CPU. Note that Windows sees a core as a CPU, and it sees a thread as a CPU. So if you have two quad-core hyperthreaded Nehalems, the OS thinks you have 16 CPUs. But you don't.

Although Hyperthreading works OK for very short-lived threads being created and torn down frequently. Look at a Sun T5120, for example: 64 threads, one real CPU.

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/se...ers/031579.htm

Runs like a slug when you have unthreaded CPU-churning apps.