Sytem shows Twice the amount of cores

machin3 · 20 Jan 2012

I just finished a build with Windows 7 Professional and going into task manager, it shows that I have 8 cores instead of 4.

I have an Intel i7 930 and an EVGA GTX 570HD and even in device manager it shows that I have 10 total cores. Why is this?

derekimo · 20 Jan 2012

machin3 said:

I just finished a build with Windows 7 Professional and going into task manager, it shows that I have 8 cores instead of 4.

I have an Intel i7 930 and an EVGA GTX 570HD and even in device manager it shows that I have 10 total cores. Why is this?

Hyper-Threading

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

4 Physical cores and 4 logical cores

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