i7 shown as 8 cores?

manbearpig · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:23

in task manager it is in 8 separate graphs, why is that?

thanks

sorry for the massive screenshot

DIABLO · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:24

Hyperthreading

manbearpig · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:29

DIABLO said:
Hyperthreading

what does hyperthreading mean?

CBJ · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:33

It means each core shows up as two and can have two threads assigned to it. For a more detailed explanation you could just read up on it on Wikipedia.

PhoenixUK · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:33

manbearpig said:
what does hyperthreading mean?

JFGI

marc512 · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:33

I so want my pc to show 8 cores.

manbearpig · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:37

ok thanks for that, i didnt have a clue why that was happening

maddness · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:54

marc512 said:
I so want my pc to show 8 cores.

photochop it

Muel · 13 Dec 2009 at 22:59

Pffft, who needs 8 cores.

Psypher5 · 13 Dec 2009 at 23:03

Muel said:
Pffft, who needs 8 cores.

Me

But i do so

neo-omega · 14 Dec 2009 at 00:23

Screw 8, I want 12!

Mattus · 14 Dec 2009 at 00:30

i7 and 6GB RAM with 32-bit XP that can only see 3.5GB of the RAM

danielb91 · 14 Dec 2009 at 02:05

why are you running windows xp on that?

manbearpig · 14 Dec 2009 at 18:49

danielb91 said:
why are you running windows xp on that?

i am getting windows 7 tomorrow, i just stuck a copy of windows xp 32 bit on for the minute, i cant use all the ram either :mad:

neo-omega · 14 Dec 2009 at 18:57

Wont you be able to install windows 7 in 64 bit mode rather than 32? Or is it specifically windows 7 32bit that you bought?

manbearpig · 14 Dec 2009 at 19:13

neo-omega said:
Wont you be able to install windows 7 in 64 bit mode rather than 32? Or is it specifically windows 7 32bit that you bought?

its 64bit, so hopefully i can get that installed tomorrow..

Psypher5 · 14 Dec 2009 at 19:26

What you gonna be using the pc for mate

? Just gaming or?

You'll love 7, if you havent used it before

My only gripe is the case choice, but i'm a lian li fanboy.

manbearpig · 14 Dec 2009 at 19:36

Psypher5 said:
What you gonna be using the pc for mate ? Just gaming or?

You'll love 7, if you haven't used it before

My only gripe is the case choice, but i'm a lian li fanboy.

im going to use the PC for gaming, watching some blu ray stuff and maby some ripping dvds.
i like the lian li cases but they are quite a lot of money and i personally like the look of the antec 1200

Fire Wizard · 14 Dec 2009 at 21:42

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Admiral Huddy · 15 Dec 2009 at 08:46

Muel said:
Pffft, who needs 8 cores.

Physically, there are four cores plus four logical cores.

You are only looking at this from a gaming perspective. Mutli threaded applications will benefit from the extra cores especially server and video applications. The more data that runs in parallel the less need for all out raw speed on a sinlge cores. As these cores also become programmable, this gives the developer options in how his application behaves in terms of performance. It's all good stuff.