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Title: Windows Gurus I got a Q
Post by: Tac on December 03, 2005, 12:19:24 PM

I bought my amd dual core 4400 1mb L2 cache 2 gig ram with 256mb bfg 7800 vid card and its running winxp64pro.


The computer came pre-built with no software and I installed windows with the common settings.


Is there any special settings I need to change in windows so it takes advantage of the dual core cpu? I'd hate to think im running on just one cpu :P

Title: Windows Gurus I got a Q
Post by: Kev367th on December 03, 2005, 02:32:57 PM

Press Ctrl + Alt + Del

Select the "Task Manager"

Click the "Performance" tab.

You should see two boxes side by side under "CPU Usage History", one for each core.

Title: Windows Gurus I got a Q
Post by: Krusty on December 03, 2005, 02:47:06 PM

Also, my motherboard BIOS has an option for 64bit that I can enable or disable. It's disabled because my cpu isn't dual core.