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  1. adiwan adiwan

    6 CPU cores with Hyper-Threading. The task manager can't display the graphs properly.

    Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 11:32:32 UTC from Choqok
    1. Cloud Kicker Cloud Kicker

      @broniebrown 6 CPU cores ? That's an odd number, what sort of CPU did you end up buying again ?

      Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 11:45:47 UTC from web
      1. adiwan adiwan

        @critialcloudkicker I'll install debian a bit later when I finished installing Windows. I have an i7-5820k CPU.

        Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 11:47:23 UTC from Choqok
        1. Cloud Kicker Cloud Kicker

          @broniebrown the I7-5820K looks like a bit of an oddball to me to be honest, hexacores ? never really liked the term ( dedecathreaded due to hyperthreading ... sounds even weirder ) ... but hey what do I know, I was forced into an upgrade at the end of Q1 this year and as such I only have an i5-4670K ( tetracore, not hyperthreading, only i7's have hyperthreading ) ... Are you running Windows 7 ? Yea pretty sure you need to load some sort of intel software to properly see howmuch your processor is taxed since taskmon in windows 7 was not properly made for anything over tetracores, probably octathreaded, not sure.

          Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 12:25:06 UTC from web
          1. adiwan adiwan

            @critialcloudkicker I'm running Windows 7. I could install 8.1 or even a developer preview of 10 but I don't like 8 and 10 is a bit too experimental for me.

            Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 12:28:45 UTC from Choqok
            1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

              @broniebrown Current hardware is well within Win7's limits anyway, no point in updating.

              Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 14:00:48 UTC from web
              1. adiwan adiwan

                @nerthos Sure. It's supported at this moment. Maybe in a few years I'll switch to 10.

                Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 14:05:17 UTC from Choqok
                1. RDN's Lucifer RDN's Lucifer

                  @broniebrown IMO support is not relevant. Even when phased out, absolutely critical security updates still come out, and the rest of the support is redundant for advanced users. What matters is if the system can deal with the newest hardware, that's what truly sets an expiration date for the OS.

                  Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 14:13:17 UTC from web
          2. Melody Chaser Melody Chaser

            @critialcloudkicker Actually that's not true my PC has an i5 dual core with hyper threading.

            Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 13:50:49 UTC from web
            1. Cloud Kicker Cloud Kicker

              @djspeedscratch dual core hyper threading ? *searches for a bit* http://ark.intel.com/search/advanced?HyperThreading=true ... Oh wow they exist, seems kinda wastefull though, I mean 4 actual cores would beat chain loading 2 on paper.

              Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 18:26:32 UTC from web
              1. Melody Chaser Melody Chaser

                @critialcloudkicker Yea I know but it's my way of saying that I'm proud to own a 4 thread machine and hyper threading actually works if I turn the hyper threads of and run gmod I lose 20 FPS

                Tuesday, 04-Nov-14 19:53:38 UTC from web