30 Nov 2008 at 15:56 #1 Ashfield Ashfield Associate Joined 25 Jun 2008 Posts 315 Im probably being stupid here but... when I view performance in the task manager its showing 8 cores. Got a 920 i7 and using Vista 64 Is this right?
Im probably being stupid here but... when I view performance in the task manager its showing 8 cores. Got a 920 i7 and using Vista 64 Is this right?
30 Nov 2008 at 15:58 #2 Smorgasbord Smorgasbord Associate Joined 15 Feb 2008 Posts 245 This is fine, it is due to the fact that you have 4 Hyper Threaded Cores.
30 Nov 2008 at 16:02 #3 Ashfield Ashfield Associate OP Joined 25 Jun 2008 Posts 315 Ah right, went from an old Athlon x2 so was a bit baffled, thought I had been lucky hahaha! Do you need to install a CPU driver like you could with the x2s or is this unecessary?
Ah right, went from an old Athlon x2 so was a bit baffled, thought I had been lucky hahaha! Do you need to install a CPU driver like you could with the x2s or is this unecessary?
30 Nov 2008 at 19:00 #4 Cob Cob Soldato Joined 30 Jul 2006 Posts 18,484 Location Antrim town It's not needed.
30 Nov 2008 at 19:12 #5 PhillyDee PhillyDee Soldato Joined 12 Feb 2007 Posts 14,117 Location South Shields Ashfield said: Ah right, went from an old Athlon x2 so was a bit baffled, thought I had been lucky hahaha! Do you need to install a CPU driver like you could with the x2s or is this unecessary? Click to expand... That wasnt a driver, more like a fatal flaw that they missed . . . .
Ashfield said: Ah right, went from an old Athlon x2 so was a bit baffled, thought I had been lucky hahaha! Do you need to install a CPU driver like you could with the x2s or is this unecessary? Click to expand... That wasnt a driver, more like a fatal flaw that they missed . . . .
