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Why does my Intel i7-920 display 8 cores instead of 4 cores?

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Mar 15, 202637583 views
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When I go to the task manager I see 8 processors but I know that I have 4. Why?

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Fix for: Why does my Intel i7-920 display 8 cores instead of 4 cores?

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Hyperthreading. Hyper-threading abstracts away task switching from the operating systems. Normally an operating system has to deal with scheduling processes over different CPUs as well as ensuring that each task that runs on the system has its fair …

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