[TriLUG] SMP, Intel Pentium D CPU, single core ????????

Reginald Reed reginald.reed at gmail.com
Sun Mar 11 19:23:07 EDT 2007


Yep, I have this processor in an HP Media Center PC - certainly is
dual core.  And as Robert said it is not to be confused with Core2 Duo
or even Core Duo.  Both would blow the doors off this PC.  And there
is no hyperthreading feature in the Pentium D 820.

On 3/11/07, Robert Dale <robdale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Pentium D is a dual core cpu  Not to be confused with Core2, which is
> a completely different architecture, that can have dual or quad cores.
>
> --
> Robert Dale
>
> On 3/11/07, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I want to post this to the list, maybe someone can point me in the
> > right direction.
> >
> > I have this Boxen: Intel Pentium D, 2.8 GHz, 1 Gig Dual Channel ram,
> > ASrock 775Dual-880Pro  motherboard.
> > This is not a Dual Core CPU chip, but..........
> >
> > Ubuntu Edgy Server install, "uname -a" :
> > johnm at bravo:~$ uname -a
> > Linux bravo 2.6.17-10-server #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:29:32 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Running "top" with 3 each "md5sum /dev/urandom" and pressing the "1"
> > key gives me:
> >
> > top - 18:08:49 up  8:16,  3 users,  load average: 3.01, 1.43, 0.55
> >
> > Tasks:  76 total,   4 running,  72 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
> > Cpu0  :  6.0%us, 94.0%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> > Cpu1  :  1.7%us, 98.3%sy,  0.0%ni,  0.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
> > Mem:   1035380k total,   177560k used,   857820k free,     7188k buffers
> > Swap:  1951888k total,        0k used,  1951888k free,   110996k cached
> >
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
> >  4243 johnm     25   0  2740  596  504 R   94  0.1   2:21.49 md5sum
> >  4242 johnm     25   0  2740  596  504 R   50  0.1   2:18.92 md5sum
> >  4244 johnm     25   0  2740  596  504 R   50  0.1   1:33.95 md5sum
> >  3957 root      15   0 32856 7936 3668 S    3  0.8   0:19.99 Xorg
> >  4100 johnm     16   0  138m  43m  19m S    3  4.3   0:14.71 firefox-bin
> >
> >    Booting Damn Small Linux gives me 2 Penquins during Boot.
> >    CPU ID = 0F34h, Prescott, 90mm
> >
> >    So do I have a Dual core cpu or what?????
> >
> > john mitchell
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