Intel P4 531 reports DualCore

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    I have an Intel Pentium 4 531 that windows sees as a dual core, has anyone else seen this?
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    I almost forgot, and couldn't find the edit button.
    But yah, it's OC'd a bit .75Ghz to be exact.
     
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    I will take another one to show that it will allow me to set the process affinity, windows appears to be reporting this processor as a dual-core.
     
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    it's because of hyper-threading. like cpu-z displays, one core, but TWO threads.
     
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