how many cores do I have?

Stupid question I know, I ordered 2 dual core Dempseys 5060s but Task
manager Performance View shows 8, Processors under Device manager show 8.

I dont have the box it came in so I can't check there. This is windows 2003
server 64 bit btw

thanks

On May 21, 6:28 pm, "Hank" <H...@Hank.net> wrote:
> Stupid question I know, I ordered 2 dual core Dempseys 5060s but Task
> manager Performance View shows 8, Processors under Device manager show 8.
>
> I dont have the box it came in so I can't check there. This is windows 2003
> server 64 bit btw
>
> thanks

Looks like you got a pair of quad cores instead.

Hank wrote:
> Stupid question I know, I ordered 2 dual core Dempseys 5060s but Task
> manager Performance View shows 8, Processors under Device manager show 8.
>
> I dont have the box it came in so I can't check there. This is windows 2003
> server 64 bit btw
>
> thanks
>

That thing has got Hyperthreading. So Task Manager is going to show
2x what you would have expected.

http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SL96A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading

"Hyper-Threading works by duplicating certain sections of the
processor — those that store the architectural state — but not
duplicating the main execution resources. This allows a Hyper-Threading
equipped processor to pretend to be two "logical" processors to the host
operating system, allowing the operating system to schedule two threads
or processes simultaneously."

HTH,
Paul

"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message news:f2tjk1$3ke$1@aioe.org...
> Hank wrote:
>> Stupid question I know, I ordered 2 dual core Dempseys 5060s but Task
>> manager Performance View shows 8, Processors under Device manager show 8.
>>
>> I dont have the box it came in so I can't check there. This is windows
>> 2003 server 64 bit btw
>>
>> thanks
>
> That thing has got Hyperthreading. So Task Manager is going to show
> 2x what you would have expected.
>
> http://processorfinder.intel.com/det...px?sSpec=SL96A
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthreading
>
> "Hyper-Threading works by duplicating certain sections of the
> processor — those that store the architectural state — but not
> duplicating the main execution resources. This allows a
> Hyper-Threading
> equipped processor to pretend to be two "logical" processors to the
> host
> operating system, allowing the operating system to schedule two
> threads
> or processes simultaneously."
>
> HTH,
> Paul

I see. Thanks again. This is the system I was talking to you about a while
ago, I got it up and running and it works great.

<paulmd@efn.org> wrote in message
news:1179797932.604643.180920@b40g2000prd.googlegr oups.com...
> On May 21, 6:28 pm, "Hank" <H...@Hank.net> wrote:
>> Stupid question I know, I ordered 2 dual core Dempseys 5060s but Task
>> manager Performance View shows 8, Processors under Device manager show 8.
>>
>> I dont have the box it came in so I can't check there. This is windows
>> 2003
>> server 64 bit btw
>>
>> thanks
>
> Looks like you got a pair of quad cores instead.
>
>

I wish, turns out to be because of hyperthreading.