Dual Core: seen as one or two processors?

[Anthony Ewell]

Hi All,

Does anyone know how XP-Pro will react when it sees a
"dual core" processor? Will it treat it like a
Hyperthread and only count it as one, or will it
count it as two?

Many thanks,
--Tony

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Doal cores are not generally available yey, outside of the labs. They
should be treated as two physical processors and Inet may add
Hyper-Threading to these.

 

[Anthony Ewell]

Hi Yves,

I was thinking in the future.

So if I were to stick two of these things into a box and
if Intel supported Hyperthread on each one of those, I'd be
looking at EIGHT virtual processors.

And, I'd have to use Windows 2000/3 server or Linux
to take advantage of them. Hmmm. A lot to think about.

Thank you for the response.

--Tony

Doal cores are not generally available yey, outside of the labs. They
should be treated as two physical processors and Inet may add
Hyper-Threading to these.