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Halevirtit   02-02-2012 at 07:19:15 PM

I got a Dell Optiplex GX270 with windows Xp service pack 3 with 512MB ram. My processor is a IntelR PentiumR 4CPU 2.40GHZ . I want to know if my computer is running on quad-core but I dont know how to find out will someone help me? P.S i already looked at other topics but they didnt help me

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IntelEnthusiast   02-02-2012 at 07:24:41 PM

The Intel® Pentium® 4 processors are all single core processors that may have hyper-threading (so they may be able to run two threads). The easiest way to see how many threads a computer is running is to bring up the task manager and go to the Performance tab and you will see a little window for each thread that can be run.


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Brett928S2   02-02-2012 at 07:25:02 PM

Hi :)

No....its NOT a Quad CPU....

All the best Brett :)

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Halevirtit   02-02-2012 at 08:16:45 PM

Brett928S2 wrote :

Hi :)

No....its NOT a Quad CPU....

All the best Brett :)



How can it not be? i clicked on run and typed dxdiag and it said on system information processor: IntelR PentiumR 4CPU 2.40GHZ :??:

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Halevirtit   02-02-2012 at 08:18:04 PM

IntelEnthusiast wrote :

The Intel® Pentium® 4 processors are all single core processors that may have hyper-threading (so they may be able to run two threads). The easiest way to see how many threads a computer is running is to bring up the task manager and go to the Performance tab and you will see a little window for each thread that can be run.


Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team




When I look on there there is only 1 thread that appears how can that be?

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blandge   02-02-2012 at 08:46:19 PM

Halevirtit wrote :

How can it not be? i clicked on run and typed dxdiag and it said on system information processor: IntelR PentiumR 4CPU 2.40GHZ :??:

 

Your system information is referring to your CPU being in the "Pentium 4" family of CPUs. The chip is called "Pentium 4" and it only has a single processing core.


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seumas_beathan   02-02-2012 at 08:54:07 PM

Use your commen sense, the pentium 4 is what 7 years old? Quad cores have only become widely used in the last 3-4 years, Now do you really think the pent 4 is going to have 4 cores, It is by todays standard a terrible processor and i highly recommend you get a new one

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wolfram23   02-02-2012 at 08:58:28 PM

Yeah, sorry to say but your PC belongs in a museum by today's standards =/

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esrever   02-02-2012 at 09:02:55 PM

it has 1/4 of a core.

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seumas_beathan   02-02-2012 at 09:05:04 PM

esrever wrote :

it has 1/4 of a core.




Wait wouldnt that mean that he had 0.25 of a core?

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esrever   02-02-2012 at 10:53:01 PM

seumas_beathan wrote :

Wait wouldnt that mean that he had 0.25 of a core?


well given the fact of how slow it is, its pretty close :P

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seumas_beathan   02-02-2012 at 11:21:46 PM

esrever wrote :

well given the fact of how slow it is, its pretty close :P



Ah this made me laugh

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