Advice please about upgrade from single to dual core
Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:46 am
Hello
I decided to condense the post to a nutshell, since I tend to ramble.
I took a harddrive out of a skt 654 single-core system and put it in a AM2 system with an X2 5400+ CPU. It did boot to windows, which surprised me a bit. Although 2 processors show in Device manager and all other pertinent places, I believe that only one core is actually being utilized. In both PC Wizard 2010 and Everest Beta Trial, it only appears that one core gets any usage. Is this normal when you switch from single to dual core without a fresh install of the operating system? Any info/advice is greatly appreciated.
I decided to condense the post to a nutshell, since I tend to ramble.
I took a harddrive out of a skt 654 single-core system and put it in a AM2 system with an X2 5400+ CPU. It did boot to windows, which surprised me a bit. Although 2 processors show in Device manager and all other pertinent places, I believe that only one core is actually being utilized. In both PC Wizard 2010 and Everest Beta Trial, it only appears that one core gets any usage. Is this normal when you switch from single to dual core without a fresh install of the operating system? Any info/advice is greatly appreciated.