How many processors/cores does my CPU have?

ClarkeKent

I am running Windows 10 preview in VMWare workstation and confused on what CPU settings to enter.

My laptop CPU is
AMD E-2 1800 (Dual Core)
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-E-Series-E2-1800-Notebook-Processor.73564.0.html

My desktop PC is
Intel i5-3750k (Quad Core)
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/29-4intel-core-i5-3570k-s-1155-ivy-bridge-quad-core-34ghz-5-gt-s-dmi-650mhz-gpu-6mb-smart-cache-34x-


The VMWare CPU settings are No of Processors: and then No of Cores: and then multiplies them together.

Does a CPU chip have multiple processors nowadays or are then just on servers etc?

Running at the moment on VMware on the Laptop I have 1 processor 2 cores and Desktop PC 1 processor 4 cores

AndyPix

The settings you apply when creating a virtual machine are the settings that you want to give your virtual machine out of the "pool" that is your entire machine.

You can choose to dedicate all of the cores , or some of them.

Standard user machines only have one processor, and can have multiple cores.

You should never assign all of your cores to a guest vm, because then only one of your OS's can do something at the same time and this will kill performance.

How many you should allocate really depends on what you want your guest OS to be doing..

More cpu intensive stuff = more cores

By the way, feel free to assign an odd number of cores to the guest VM (ie 3)
It feels a bit strange but is perfectly acceptable

So on the laptop I would give it 1 core .. And on the desktop I would either give it 1, 2 or 3 .. depending on what you want to do with it (and what else you need your host computer to be doing at the same time)

Hope this helps
Andy

Cisco001

both of them with one processor
laptop 2 core
desktop 4 core

ClarkeKent

BTW, Windows 10 is quite impressive. Although the anti Windows 8/8.1 brigade will not be thrilled the Apps/Tiles haven't given up the ghost.

It is like a Windows 7/8.1 hybrid I would say, so far anyway.

Link to try is
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/preview-iso

You can use VMWare Player to run it, which is free

AndyPix

Thanks ClarkeKent,
I agree - I like it ..

I have been a beta tester for Win 10 for the past year so I have had a bit of input into the direction it is taking.
Your right, it does seem to provide the best of both win7 and win8 worlds.

the tiles being back is a new thing though as the original build didn't have them.
It has a nice small footprint and feels responsive and sure of its self.

This is to be the last full release of windows (hence skipping the win 9 name)
From now on Microsoft is just going to keep updating Windows 10

Andy

Johnmcl7

Consumer PC's are still single socket (whereas workstations and servers can be multiple socket) but they can have multiple cores and on some processors those cores can execute more than one thread each. The task manager in Windows 8 onwards is quite handy as it shows you how many sockets, cores and total logical processors a system has, CPU-Z will also show that information and other detailed specs on the installed processor.

The reason it's handy is because the logical processors that show are not all equivalent, AMD and Intel define cores differently now for some of their processors and some Intel processors support hyperthreading which means each core shows as two logical processors. That means a dual core Intel Core i3 and a quad core core i5 will both show as four processors as the i3 has two hyperthreaded cores (each core can run up to two threads each) while the quad core i5 has four standard cores.

John

50Twuncle

AndyPix wrote: »

Thanks ClarkeKent,
I agree - I like it ..

I have been a beta tester for Win 10 for the past year so I have had a bit of input into the direction it is taking.
Your right, it does seem to provide the best of both win7 and win8 worlds.

the tiles being back is a new thing though as the original build didn't have them.
It has a nice small footprint and feels responsive and sure of its self.

This is to be the last full release of windows (hence skipping the win 9 name)
From now on Microsoft is just going to keep updating Windows 10

Andy

Apart from its problem with .net framework, the fact that you cannot even read the clock and numerous other issues such as the inability to stop windows update, then resume later - that I would have expected to have been sorted at this late stage in development !!
Yes - Win 10 does appear nice and quick.