Task Manager Of Our New SQL Server

[Jay]

This is not in use yet, just finished the install.



2 x X5500
16GB Ram
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64

[madman045]

Blimey Jay, your intending to run some serious reporting off that box?

[Jay]

oh yes...

[Singh400]

This is not in use yet, just finished the install.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...oasis/task.jpg

2 x X5500
16GB Ram
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64

Yes, congrats your epeen is now this big |----|

[Moby-Dick]

so only 8 cores but showing 16 threads ? its not hyper threading is it ?

just had to build out a dev box for one of our teams

[img=http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5554/specu.jpg]

x64 W2k8as well..

16Gb is for Domain Controllers

[Jay]

yes its an i7 based CPU with HT

[Moby-Dick]

didn't realise they still used HT - I do remember the shock of seeing 16 graphs when I first built a box with quad dual core HT processors.