Find out physical processor amount Win server 2003

[IT_Man_Dan]

Morning all,

 

I've got to upgrade to sql 2008 for sims.

 

I'm just getting pricing in and I need to determine how many physical processors I have in the server, is there any quick software method for doing this?

 

My server has Intel Xeon E5310 and in device manager it registers 8 processors, Does that mean that cos it's quadcore I'd have 2 physicals onboard?

 

Thanks

Dan

[K.C.Leblanc]

CPUID will tell you.

 

I would expect it's a single quad core CPU. It's registering 8 cores because it uses hyper threading.

 

Our twin 55xxs register 16 cores on ESX console.

 

EDIT: Actualy you've probably got dual CPUs, my Q8200 reports as 4 processors in device manager.

[apeo]

You can also have a look at:

 

How to get physical CPU count on a server