I have a P4 3.2G on a Intel D875PBZLK mobo, Kingston dual
512mb in the "0" slots. WinXP Pro. All new updates and
drivers installed.

The WinXP Device Manager shows 2 identical CPU's, there
is actually only one. The system seems to be operating
stable and fast. (Like I wanted with this cpu & mobo
choice.)

Should I just leave this alone? Should I delete 1 CPU? If
so the top or the bottom listed?

Hello

Your system is working just fine, you have Hyper threading turned
on in your Bios, if you turn it off you will see one processor, so the
system is working fine

Links talks about hyperthreading

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;810231


Alvin


LarryK wrote:

> I have a P4 3.2G on a Intel D875PBZLK mobo, Kingston dual
> 512mb in the "0" slots. WinXP Pro. All new updates and
> drivers installed.
>
> The WinXP Device Manager shows 2 identical CPU's, there
> is actually only one. The system seems to be operating
> stable and fast. (Like I wanted with this cpu & mobo
> choice.)
>
> Should I just leave this alone? Should I delete 1 CPU? If
> so the top or the bottom listed?

If you have a pentium processor with hyper-threading, you
device manager is supposed to show 2 cpu's. The hyper-
threading technology can do two processes at the same
time. Therefore, the computer will read it as two
seperate processors.