The hosts the hosts that have two chips of Xeon X53** and E53** are being displayed as 4(8), as if they are dual-core chips, times 4. These are 4 cores per chip, so should be displayed as 2(8).

I read somwhere that the new quad core xeons are really just 2 dual core chips on the same chunk of silicon (microprocessor chip), so it makes sense that that each chip is reported as 2 dual core processors (for a total of 4 cores). I've got a new dual 5355 workstation and performance is very respectable

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Regardless of how the circuits are laid out on the on the chips, the nomenclature is chips(threads). Where chips are the physical bits, and threads are the logical devices. So it should show 2(8).

I'll update this.

Updated the Quad core Xeons.

Due to caching it may take a few hours for all pages to show them correctly.

Thanks!!

A true dual-core processor (such as the Core 2 Duo or Athlon64 X2) shows as having 2 chips, while a hyper-threaded CPU like the Pentium4 HT shows as 1 chip and 2 threads - 1(2). Images from Intel's website on the quad-core pages show only 2 cores per die, which leads me to believe these are actually hyper-threaded dual-core CPUs. If they are hyper-threaded dual-core CPU's, then each die should show as 2 chips and 4 threads - 2(4).

Please note: I don't own any multi-core CPUs right now, this is just conjecture based upon the information I have seen. If they are true quad-core CPUs, then each die should show as 4 chips, not two chips with 4 threads.

Xeon 50XX are dual core, with HT
Xeon 51XX are dual core, no HT
Xeon 53XX are quad core, no HT

Willy, I noticed that the 50XX Xeons also have the same problem. They are listed 4(8), and should also be 2(8). One of my machines is a dual 5060, if you need an example.