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Processor advertised with 2 cores but PC shows 4 cores
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I recently purchased an Intel i5-650 processor. On the Intel site, this the technical specifications show that the processor should only have two cores. http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei5/specifications.htm However, when I check the Performance tab in 'Windows Task Manager', it shows 4 …
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Fix for: Processor advertised with 2 cores but PC shows 4 cores
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What you are seeing is hyper-threading. This enables a single core to process 2 concurrent threads of execution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading Its not actually as good as having 4 cores, but it provides a speedup.
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