how do i know that my pm is dual core? if i see the packaging yes.. its said dual core..but in the system profiler it is written " dual 2ghz power PC G5" does it mean dual 2 ghz is dual prossesor, am i being tricked?
how do i know that my pm is dual core? if i see the packaging yes.. its said dual core..but in the system profiler it is written " dual 2ghz power PC G5" does it mean dual 2 ghz is dual prossesor, am i being tricked?
Open Terminal, type this in and hit return:
sysctl -n hw.ncpu
Then as said above, open it up and see how many huge "G5" logos that you see.
P.S. If you were being "tricked", it would be a good thing, as each CPU would have its own 1 gHz bus.
aww someone didn't appreciate my big-lebowski reference. Sorry if it offended anyone.
anyways, as for the previous poster: the dual cores seem to benchmark better than the dual single cores, so it would be a bad thing if he got 2x1 instead of 1x2.
Er, wouldn't the dual heatsinks mean that there were two processors, meaning in the case of the latest Powermacs, four cores?
The original poster never said whether or not he had two heatsinks. That is of course the easiest way and gives the answer in about 1.5 seconds, but for some reason it never occurred to him, even after we told him.
Of course, he didn't understand what the "2" meant after the sysctl command either, so maybe we need to explain how to unlatch the side door...
The original poster never said whether or not he had two heatsinks. That is of course the easiest way and gives the answer in about 1.5 seconds, but for some reason it never occurred to him, even after we told him.
Of course, he didn't understand what the "2" meant after the sysctl command either, so maybe we need to explain how to unlatch the side door...
Does that still work? From the online pictures of the new duals and quads that I saw, it looked to me that they replaced the number of G5s with just one big G5. A more sure fire way would be to go to the Blue Apple menu and click "About This Mac". It will tell you.
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If you paid for dual core, you got a dual core. If you didn't, someone took it from you in korea.
Originally posted by iM-0N
how do i know that my pm is dual core? if i see the packaging yes.. its said dual core..but in the system profiler it is written " dual 2ghz power PC G5" does it mean dual 2 ghz is dual prossesor, am i being tricked?
Open Terminal, type this in and hit return:
sysctl -n hw.ncpu
Then as said above, open it up and see how many huge "G5" logos that you see.
P.S. If you were being "tricked", it would be a good thing, as each CPU would have its own 1 gHz bus.
anyways, as for the previous poster: the dual cores seem to benchmark better than the dual single cores, so it would be a bad thing if he got 2x1 instead of 1x2.
Originally posted by lundy
Open Terminal, type this in and hit return:
sysctl -n hw.ncpu
Then as said above, open it up and see how many huge "G5" logos that you see.
P.S. If you were being "tricked", it would be a good thing, as each CPU would have its own 1 gHz bus.
this is the results?
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raymonds-power-mac-g5:~ emon$ sysctl -n hw.ncpu
2
raymonds-power-mac-g5:~ emon$
what is it mean?
6
ahh, what i tryin to ask is this one..
huehehhe...
Originally posted by Placebo
Er, wouldn't the dual heatsinks mean that there were two processors, meaning in the case of the latest Powermacs, four cores?
The original poster never said whether or not he had two heatsinks. That is of course the easiest way and gives the answer in about 1.5 seconds, but for some reason it never occurred to him, even after we told him.
Of course, he didn't understand what the "2" meant after the sysctl command either, so maybe we need to explain how to unlatch the side door...
Originally posted by lundy
The original poster never said whether or not he had two heatsinks. That is of course the easiest way and gives the answer in about 1.5 seconds, but for some reason it never occurred to him, even after we told him.
Of course, he didn't understand what the "2" meant after the sysctl command either, so maybe we need to explain how to unlatch the side door...
Does that still work? From the online pictures of the new duals and quads that I saw, it looked to me that they replaced the number of G5s with just one big G5. A more sure fire way would be to go to the Blue Apple menu and click "About This Mac". It will tell you.