Re: dual core processor

1. No choice there.

2. No, or I haven't found it, although I have studied it several times.

3. Haven't yet, but will.

Read the link - interesting. I had tried HT on & off and came to the
conclusion that my machine was slightly better at doing other work while SW
was chunking away if HT were turned off. Seemed backwards, but that was my
gut feel. I'm not done with this thing yet.......

WT

"John Layne" <JohnDON'TBUGMEWITHSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:XY3We.11664$iM2.1032079@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Wayne Tiffany wrote:
>> 1 graph. However, when this machine had XP64 on it, I noticed that it
>> did
>> have two CPU graphs. I also took another look at the BIOS and it's only
>> showing CPU 0: and none other. So, all this is making me wonder if it's
>> not
>> going to happen with XP32 on this machine. On the other hand, why not??
>>
>> WT
>>
>
> I would suggest, (although you may have tried all this)
>
> 1. Task Manager, click the performance TAB, then View / CPU History /
> check One CPU per graph.
> http://www.solidengineering.co.nz/help/taskmanager.jpg
>
> 2. Is there a switch in the BIOS to enable both cores?
>
> 3. check to see if there is a BIOS upgrade available.
>
> And once you get it going read link below, it has some interesting
> reading regarding Hyperthreading. Maybe I shouldn't have turned
> Hyperthreading off on my clients SolidWorks PC after all.
>
> http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20040528/
>
>
> John Layne
> www.solidengineering.co.nz


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