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Looking randomly through the properties of my computer i saw this "Pentium(R) 4CPU 3.00GHz 3.00GHZ" and other stuff. Out of curiosity i looked at device manager and saw this "ACPI Multiprocessor PC"(under computer) and "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz " twice(this under processor).Does this mean the obvious that it's got 2 processors or something else? Thanks for any replys.
And ignore any spelling mistakes.

  • 05.13.2005 3:50 PM PDT
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You could open your machine and find out.

  • 05.13.2005 3:56 PM PDT
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i doubt that you have two physical processors. This is what hyper-threading does: fool the OS into thinking you have 2 processors, but there is only one processor in reality. this also fools the OS into thinking that it can process two "threads" (programs, data) at once, which is good for multitasking. Looks like your P4 has hyper-threading.

  • 05.13.2005 4:02 PM PDT
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And how would it look?Sorry for the double post didn't saw the first one so i thought it didn't show up or something.

  • 05.13.2005 4:05 PM PDT
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it would look exactly like how you described it in your first post.


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  • 05.13.2005 4:08 PM PDT
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I mean the physical one(the one Chewy was talking about)

  • 05.13.2005 4:23 PM PDT
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Nope. It's a single processor. What you have is hyper-threading on your p4. I had one that had it two. It runs two virtual cores on one single physical core, so you can have 2-way traffic instead of one way.

And anyway, you can't have dual pentium 4's. They cannot operate as a pair. The only ones that can are Xeons or AMD Opterons.

  • 05.13.2005 5:06 PM PDT
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you would have 2 large heatsink/fan assemblies on the mobo

i highly doubt it, because i dont think that dual p4 mobos exist really

  • 05.13.2005 5:06 PM PDT
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Thanks for the replys i was wondering for quite a while what it meant.Well one processor will have to do...

  • 05.13.2005 6:08 PM PDT
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Yeah, it's actually impossible. Dual-, Quad-, or Octo- processor pc's require a special chipset to divide the work amongst the processor and the processors need to be the right stepping (2- or 8-way). The only way to go dual is get a server-style pc.

  • 05.13.2005 7:36 PM PDT
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and dont you also have to have a os that supports it? i believe, but am not sure, that windows xp supports only 2. and my friend had a non server style mobo that had 2 sockets on it, but it was ub3r old, and he had a celeron 566 on it :D (too bad he didnt have another celeron 566...)

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  • 05.14.2005 2:00 PM PDT
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Hell if I know, I've only run dual and that works dandy with XP. I'd imagine you could also go quad-processor, but yeah, eight would probably require a server OS, since that's pretty much what an eight processor system is for - nothing else, really. Unless of course you are a hardcore 3D designer that needs to render huge scenes in seconds and have loads of money...

  • 05.15.2005 8:54 AM PDT
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I've heard of quad processer mobos, but octo is just stretching the limit! I mean, 8! that's like *counts on fingers* 8! And that would be expensive! I think you may have to write your own OS to get it working (that or mod a system to work with 8).

  • 05.15.2005 11:47 AM PDT
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i would imagine that it would take a lot of cooling and voltage to support the running of 8 processors.

  • 05.15.2005 11:59 AM PDT
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home edition has to work with 2, cause of hyperthreading. otherwise it wouldnt work. (my grandpa has home and a ht cpu, so i know it works)

  • 05.15.2005 1:02 PM PDT
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Not only cooling, but also the power usage :o

Home edition does work with two for sure, but I'm not sure about 4. Good point, since hyperthreading makes XP think it's working with two processors, it must be able to handle two physical ones.

  • 05.15.2005 1:15 PM PDT
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i think that the next windows 64 bit edition will work with the new dual core cpu's with hyper threading on each core, making 4 virtual processors. I read it in PCWORLD.

  • 05.16.2005 4:13 PM PDT