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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 18:14
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At school today, the computer I was using crashed. No big deal. Then this appears during boot.


No big deal, I think. Just 2 50MHZ processors.


WOW!

INCREDIBLE!
The most amazing thing is, these were BOTH running on a mini ITX with no cooling fan!


At least farting ferrets are better than stinky stoats.
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Torsten Sorensen
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 18:18
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Heh, thats weird...

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Mikey P
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 18:45
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I heard something about some PC's (And XP installations that aren't updated to SP1/2) show the newere Intel P4's as dual-core, when in fact they're not, but because of hyper-threading or whatever they show up...

I don't know the exact details, I'm not great in the processor department

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x1bwork
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 18:52
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Quote: "Processor 2: Intel P4 at 2.8GHZ
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ya man, sorry, I left that behind. ill come pick it up later today

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Jeku
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 19:26
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You should see the specs of my computer at work--- 2 smoking fast 3D video cards, dual LCD, 2 GB RAM (soon to be 4)--- and yah, I can't remember it all as I'm home right now


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 21:37
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hyper threaded cpu's can be interpretted by win xp as two cpus, my machine at home does this. If you look at the Task Manager performance tab youll probably see two scrolling grids for the "cpu's".

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Me!
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 22:31
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yeah! my Intel 3.1ghz ht shows up as 2 cpu`s, strangley it only ever shows DB as using 50% of each cpu, I think what it`s trying to say in it`s peverse Winderz manner is it thinks it has two 3.1ghz cpus, but when it checks the performance each "3ghz" cpu is going at 1.5ghz cos it`s actualy just 1 3ghz cpu pretending to be two cpus and it gets windows confused (almost as confused as I am getting, I think I`ll quit now while I am ahead) (see screenshot attached)



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Saikoro
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 23:00
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My P4 3.6ghz shows up as dual as well.

@ Me!

56 processes?! Insane! I couldn't stand to be anything but minimalist when it comes to my computer, however, and have a lot of things that should be on turned off I hope that doesn't cause too many problems... haven't seen any yet.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 7th Apr 2006 23:56
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My P4 3.0 shows up as dual, I just assumed each was 1.5 or something


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re faze
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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 00:42
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winxp should be turned off.

Dont code slowly be SWIFT about it!
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 01:26
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2.8GHZ on a Mini ITX is still pretty good when it is silent, no cooling fan.


At least farting ferrets are better than stinky stoats.
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Jeku
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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 01:38 Edited at: 8th Apr 2006 01:48
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Okay my work comp is a dual PIV 3.2, 160GB HD, dual ATI FireGL X3-256MB Video card, DVD, Dual 19" LCDs, 2GB RAM and a bunch of other misc.

Wow--- didn't know I was running on dual processors

EDIT:

Holy crap, just checked out the price of the video card in my comp--- one of them is between $700-1000US

http://stores.tomshardware.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=5305267//


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mm0zct
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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 02:49 Edited at: 8th Apr 2006 03:02
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i might not have 2 processors or a firegl graphics card but i do have more screens than jeku
i have 3 17" tft's attached to my pc at 1280x1024, kinda acquired one when we were redecorating a room that my dad's pc was in, it still hasn't been finished and my dad just uses his laptop, the other was a spare at his work (it's his dental practice so it is his monitor before anyone thinks i stole it ).
the only problem is windows won't hardware accelerate more than one monitor, even though there are 2 graphics cards.

more on topic(ish) i wish my school had pc's like that one

attached proof for any doubters:
http://www.lochviewwest.plus.com/neo/Imag00165.jpg
didn't realise how big the photograph was until i'd alraedt attached it, link is to a smaller (1/4 size ) image

AMD athlon 64 3000+, 1GB ddr400, 400GB total hdd, ati radeon x700pro 256mb (pci-e), onboard nvidea graphics (6100 chipset, sharing 128mb ram) 3x17" tft(@1280x1024).

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EddieB
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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 13:38
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I have two 17 inch currently... And Im saving for two more to go above them
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Phaelax
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Posted: 8th Apr 2006 19:18
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I have a Pentium 2.8 prescott core, it'll show as 2 CPUs. It's the hyper-threading.


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Oddmind
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Posted: 11th Apr 2006 06:22
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holy crap van!!! thats freaking awesome. from newegg one of those cards is $763!

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Saikoro
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Posted: 11th Apr 2006 06:28
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Jeku! I know its easy to get the heads mixed up. I do it all the time

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TKF15H
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Posted: 11th Apr 2006 06:48
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Quote: "Oh my god!"

... And here I was thinking you were about to say, "They killed Kenny!".

DC emulator code size: 9MB. Compiled: 4MB.
Overall Status: 20% done. CPU: 80% (no floats), RAM: 10%, GFX: 0%
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