Dude, the CPU has got to be over heating. yes, it will show up as two cores, I believe the Pentium D 9xx series have two presler cores on one die, not overly hot, not too slow either. Get speedfan or motherboard monitor to take a look at your CPU temps, and fan speeds. I bet your computers filled with shit that won't exactly help gaming too. I see some people run 50-60 processes, bloody hell, I've got everything I use open and I'm running 24.
~Bryan~
Hmm..strange, well, just pop into the BIOS and check out the temps yourself then. It should be pretty simple to find it, depends on your motherboard and BIOS, or you could give Motherboard Monitor a try, but likely if speedfan can't read the sensors, MM couldn't either.
~Bryan~
EDIT: You could try a newer version of speedfan (I just checked and I'm using Version 4.32)
PS, my temps arn't actually that low, it just reads 15degrees low for some reason (double checked with MM5, and Everest)
Yes, but my PC is HELLA old. The only sensors it has is vcore, CPU temp, and heatsink speed. All the nessesary, my HD is cold to the touch. *smiles* How I love simple computers.
~Bryan~
EDIT: Austin, check out the configuration menu, make sure every sensor is checked. This is what mine looks like when I get it to show all the sensors it can...
Google MM5, as for BIOS, it tells you on the screen what button to press when you boot your computer (it's delete for me, I believe newer motherboards use one of the F keys) Reboot and take a look at your screen for the information.
~Bryan~