Pentium4 3.0GHz Prescott

Just recently upgraded my PC's CPU to an Intel Pentium4 3GHz Prescott. To see if it's fully functional I ran CPU-Z. These are the results: Why are there two CPU entries (the 2nd says Logical) when in fact there's physically only have 1 CPU? This is kinda bothering me.

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by ,


data/avatar/default/avatar04.webp

139 Posts
Location -
Joined 2002-04-29
Just recently upgraded my PC's CPU to an Intel Pentium4 3GHz Prescott.
 
To see if it's fully functional I ran CPU-Z. These are the results:
 

Why are there two CPU entries (the 2nd says Logical) when in fact there's physically only have 1 CPU?
 

 

 

This is kinda bothering me. The memory frequency is reported at 200MHz, but I have PC3200 RAM, which is supposed to be running 400MHz DDR, or is CPU-Z reporting the Non-DDR speed?
 

 

 
 
Also, it seems the CPU's fan is rather noisy (like a siren, and I can hear it from two rooms away).
 

Participate on our website and join the conversation

You have already an account on our website? Use the link below to login.
Login
Create a new user account. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds.
Register
This topic is archived. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast.

Responses to this topic


data/avatar/default/avatar37.webp

178 Posts
Location -
Joined 2001-11-03
This is Intel's alleged Hyperthreading technology at work. It creates a second logical processor, and tells you that its resources are whatever cpu cycles are not used by processor no1 (the actual one).
 
Your memory speed is 200Mhz and DDR means that it's doubled (that is 400MHz) - much like a P4's FSB is 200MHz quadpumped = 800MHz.

data/avatar/default/avatar34.webp

402 Posts
Location -
Joined 2004-09-11
I had a problem with my P4 3.2Gig prescott processor on my ASUS motherboard, it yould not show the full 3.2Gig, it only showed 2.8 and I could not undertand why, it is then whe I turned to the power if the internet and I found on the ASUS website that they have a problem with the PRESCOTT processors and that I need to update my BIOS, so I did and as true as bob it worked, now it shows my full 3.2Gig and I feel more like a man now :):

data/avatar/default/avatar01.webp

1547 Posts
Location -
Joined 2002-05-29
Originally posted by Phalanx-Imawano:
Quote: 
{snippage}
 
Also, it seems the CPU's fan is rather noisy (like a siren, and I can hear it from two rooms away).
 
Well this is typical of a Prescott core CPU fan, it's thermally controlled and has a copper center core to help with all that power dissapation
 
If you want something quiter, you'll have to get a third party heatsink fan, a solid copper heatsink, thermal paste and bigger fan.
 
I like the ones that Zalmann makes, solid copper blooms with a separate 92mm fan. You can also get a 120mm fan for an even quiter mode of operation.