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do i have 1 or 2 processors ?

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I have an intel core 2 quad Q8200 (Yorkfield) @ 2.33GHz

CPUZ has it listed as 1 processor but for some reason i thought it was 2 processors with 4 cores each.

is cpuz correct ?
 
I suspect you are confusing processors for cores. They can be thought of as being the same thing I guess.

Lets think about it like this shall we. A single processor can have multiple cores. So a E6600, E8400 and the i3-530 all are a single processor with two cores. Now the Q6600, Q8200, i7-760 and i7-930 are also single processors with four cores.
 
The two CPU's on a single motheboard is here. There have been a number of them but the two best know would be the old Skulltrail and the current bad boy is the EVGS SR2.

And there is very little difference between consumers and commercial these days. :) Most commercial buyers will buy really rubbish while consumers like you and I always seem to want the best or the fastest.

The EVGA board is very popular with crunchers if you are trying to work out who buys them. Think that OCUK has a crunching team too.
 
Omg OP with over 2000 posts and being 'wise guy' , I had thought you should have known this by now that a core 2 quad is a single processor with 4 physical cores :o.
 
movingtables said:
will we have 2 processors in our pc's anytime soon do you think? consumers i meen not commercial.
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We've been there in the past but multisocket setups have been effectively obsoleted by multicore. From a cost/performance point of view multi-socket setups offer very little for gaming/general consumer use.

Here is a quote from 1999:
(SMP = symmetric multiprocessing)
FiringSquad said:
With Quake3: Arena SMP support and Windows 2000 on the horizon, it looks like the beginning of a new mainstream multiprocessor revolution. Abit has fired the first shot with their release of the low cost BP6 dual 370-pin processor motherboard, but will the masses follow? We believe SMP will eventually become mainstream, and the Abit BP6 and Celeron 366 PPGA combo, the first low-cost, high performance SMP setup is a huge step in that direction.
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/dualceleron550/
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Workstations commonly come with dual socket arrangements. Apple Mac Pro for example can be purchased two hexacore processors.

In some ways you could actually say we are living in a multiprocessor age, albeit a heterogeneous one. Your GPU and CPU working together but rather than being identical and splitting the load equally they are each optimised for specific tasks that complement each other.
 
WingZero30 said:
Omg OP with over 2000 posts and being 'wise guy' , I had thought you should have known this by now that a core 2 quad is a single processor with 4 physical cores :o.
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lol.
to be honest i think i used to know the answer to my question but i'd forgot as i dont really take much interest in pc tech as much as i used to say 10 or so years ago.
who needs to be clever when you have these forums :D
 
1Day said:
I suspect you are confusing processors for cores. They can be thought of as being the same thing I guess.

Lets think about it like this shall we. A single processor can have multiple cores. So a E6600, E8400 and the i3-530 all are a single processor with two cores. Now the Q6600, Q8200, i7-760 and i7-930 are also single processors with four cores.
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Technically the Q6600 and Q8200 are 2 cpus with 2 cores each though even though they are in a single package, if you take the ihs of them there are 2 separates pieces of silicon. The i7 is a 'monolithic' quadcore as it were though.
 
Aren't Qxxx actually a 2 dual core CPUs stuck together rather than a quad like PII or i7 ? ;-)

That would make it 2 CPUs with 2 cores each regarding this particular gen.
 
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