Confused about my CPU!

An old HP DL560 G1 Quad Xeon System

Why is my system showing 2GHZ CPU's?

I have a Quad CPU "Xeon MP 2GHZ" system as enumerated/identified during a BIOS boot.

*The XEON 2GHZ MP is a single threaded unit and does not come with HT*

However /proc/cpuinfo shows 8 execution units leading me to believe HT is enabled.

In fact this can be proven by executing 9 threads, and seeing the "top" result (8 execution units).


3346 root 25 0 21088 5784 4180 R 100.0 0.1 1:00.43 php
3347 root 25 0 21088 5784 4180 R 100.0 0.1 0:59.96 php
3348 root 25 0 21088 5788 4180 R 100.0 0.1 0:59.54 php
3354 root 25 0 21088 5784 4180 R 100.0 0.1 0:28.17 php
3345 root 25 0 21088 5788 4180 R 99.8 0.1 1:00.99 php
3356 root 25 0 21088 5780 4180 R 99.8 0.1 0:26.80 php
3351 root 25 0 21088 5788 4180 R 99.5 0.1 0:43.13 php
3358 root 25 0 21088 5784 4180 R 50.1 0.1 0:07.66 php
3355 root 25 0 21088 5780 4180 R 49.7 0.1 0:19.69 php

As can be seen past thread #8 the thread splits and runs concurrently (approx. 2x50%)

dmidecode shows (for each cpu - showing the last one..):

Processor Information
Socket Designation: Proc 4
Type: Central Processor
Family: Xeon
Manufacturer: Intel
ID: 22 0F 00 00 FF FB EB 3F
Signature: Type 0, Family 15, Model 2, Stepping 2
Flags:
FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)
VME (Virtual mode extension)
DE (Debugging extension)
PSE (Page size extension)
TSC (Time stamp counter)
MSR (Model specific registers)
PAE (Physical address extension)
MCE (Machine check exception)
CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
SEP (Fast system call)
MTRR (Memory type range registers)
PGE (Page global enable)
MCA (Machine check architecture)
CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
PAT (Page attribute table)
PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
DS (Debug store)
ACPI (ACPI supported)
MMX (MMX technology supported)
FXSR (FXSAVE and FXSTOR instructions supported)
SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
SS (Self-snoop)
HTT (Multi-threading)
TM (Thermal monitor supported)

Version: Not Specified
Voltage: 1.7 V
External Clock: 400 MHz
Max Speed: 3000 MHz
Current Speed: 2000 MHz
Status: Populated, Idle
Upgrade: ZIF Socket


HT is enabled in the BIOS and the above status shows HTT is part of the CPU?
It also shows current as 2GHZ but max as 3GHZ.... (but I have 2GHZ CPU's...)

However my issue is:

The 2GHZ Xeon MP is not a HT device and only has one execution unit!!

Checking the Intel specs for "Type 0, Family 15, Model 2, Stepping 2"


0.13 µm process technology Northwood B (2.26, 2.4, 2.53, 2.66, 2.8, 3.06 GHz)

533 MHz system bus. (3.06 includes Intel's hyper threading technology).

0.13 µm process technology Northwood C (2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4 GHz)

800 MHz system bus (all versions include Hyper Threading)
6500 to 10000 MIPS


Now am I to assume that (because my FSB is 533) that I have actually 3.06 HT CPU's?

If this is the case.. why is the BIOS reporting them as 2GHZ?

Further info.. shows 1..8 of this...

CPU #8
Family: 15 Model: 2 Stepping: 2 Type: 0 Brand: 12
CPU Model: Pentium 4 (Northwood) [A0] Original OEM
Processor name string: Intel(R) XEON(TM) MP CPU 2.00GHz

Feature flags:
fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflsh ds acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm
Extended feature flags:

Cache info
Instruction trace cache: 12K uOps, 8-way associative.
L1 Data cache: 8KB, sectored, 4-way associative. 64 byte line size.
L2 unified cache: 512KB, sectored, 8-way associative. 64 byte line size.
L3 unified cache: 2MB, 8-way associative. 64 byte line size.
TLB info
Instruction TLB: 4K, 2MB or 4MB pages, fully associative, 64 entries.
Data TLB: 4KB or 4MB pages, fully associative, 64 entries.
The physical package supports 2 logical processors



However the 2GHZ never came in an HT version - confused

DL560 G1 is a 2U Quad CPU model with 4 physical processors

It's a mystery to me how the CPU is HT enabled though as Intel specs say this has 1 core and 1 thread!

I beleive cpu-z is mistaken in that you have a northwood. I beleive you have a later dual-core version and hence the 8 threads and no hyperthreading.