I have an extremely noobish question, I apologize in advance here
I have an intel i5 in my laptop
when I go to the task manager and look at performance it is showing me 4 CPUs
or at least, four separate cpu usage screens
the i5 is a dual core, correct?
so why am I seeing 4 cpu usage screens?
some i5's are hyperthreaded, which basically means that each core is split into 2 virtual cores, so windows reports 4 in total. and heres a wikipedia page if you want to know way more technical stuff on how it's done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
I have an extremely noobish question, I apologize in advance here
I have an intel i5 in my laptop
when I go to the task manager and look at performance it is showing me 4 CPUs
or at least, four separate cpu usage screens
the i5 is a dual core, correct?
so why am I seeing 4 cpu usage screens?
some i5's are hyperthreaded, which basically means that each core is split into 2 virtual cores, so windows reports 4 in total. and heres a wikipedia page if you want to know way more technical stuff on how it's done: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
AH
I assumed hyper threading had something to do with it. thanks!
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Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
Some i5s are also Quad Cores, so it might be that too. gj Intel.
But not the mobile ones - all mobile i5s (4xx and 5xx) are dual-core Arrandale with HT. The quad-core, no HT desktop i5s are 7xx series Lynnfield cores.
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some i5's are hyperthreaded, which basically means that each core is split into 2 virtual cores, so windows reports 4 in total. and heres a wikipedia page if you want to know way more technical stuff on how it's done:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
AH
I assumed hyper threading had something to do with it. thanks!
Uh-oh I accidentally deleted my signature. Uh-oh!!
But not the mobile ones - all mobile i5s (4xx and 5xx) are dual-core Arrandale with HT. The quad-core, no HT desktop i5s are 7xx series Lynnfield cores.