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Hidden Pentium 4 Core

Hackintosh Pentium 4 2.66Ghz [email protected] MMX SEE1/2 2Gb (2x 1Gb DDR SDRAM) ATi Radeon 3650 1Gb AGP 3Com Enthernet PCI MotherBoard--Intel D845PESV Gaming Rig Phenom II x4 955 3.20Ghz [email protected] MMX+ 3DNow+ SEE1/2/3/4A x86-64 AMD-V 4Gb (1x 4Gb…

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@teh-random-name Published 2011-11-26
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3,150 historical reads · 0 curated field notes (from 1 dispatches) · 2011-11-26
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Hackintosh
Pentium 4 2.66Ghz [email protected] MMX SEE1/2
2Gb (2x 1Gb DDR SDRAM)
ATi Radeon 3650 1Gb AGP
3Com Enthernet PCI
MotherBoard--Intel D845PESV

Gaming Rig
Phenom II x4 955 3.20Ghz [email protected] MMX+ 3DNow+ SEE1/2/3/4A x86-64 AMD-V
4Gb (1x 4Gb DDR3 1333)
nVidia GeForce 450 GTS 1Gb PCIe
MotherBoard--ASUS M4A79XTD EVO

I have this Hackintosh that has a P4, during boot with "-v" it listed a second core as disabled. This CPU is NOT HyperThreading compatible nor is the MotherBoard, I cross checked it with a HT compatible motherboard and no dice.

The same thing happend when I tested the DVD after burning it in my gaming rig, it listed 2 extra cores disabled. I can enabled the cores in my BIOS but still can't use them in Windows or Mac.

I want to know, is there really a second core?, and if, Can it enable the second core?

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