Ok, I'm an idiot...but uh why do I see 8 cores?

[zampolit]

I haven't built a home computer since my AMD 4400x2...so this quad core thing is new. but when I got xp64 installed I noticed I had 8 cores(only did this so I could do win7) then I noticed, I still had 8 cores! Is this something new to have 2 logical cores per physical? Neat bonus, didn't expect it...but just wanted to make sure. Was about to go to intel.com and look for any cpu drivers...but if this legit I don't want to dl anything!


took a screenshot of resource manager and task manager...

 

[guanyu210379]

i7 930?
4 of then are real and the next 4 are virtual.

 

[Griffolion]

Four physical cores in the I7 930, however each core is able to hyperthread (2 per core generally). Therefore the total amount of logical cores is 8 and that is the number given.

 

[jsc]

Cool, isn't it?

You have more than you thought you did.