Posting from my $300 walmart laptop

[marko138]

Damn, good price.

[Rangerscott]

Originally Posted by BobTheBiker

NOW, do you know how to turn on both cores of that dual core? from the factory, only one is active. check it out. I even had to turn on the dual core mode in my Asus.

I guess they do that themselves, cause I've seen a bunch of bios before the user touches anything. All cores are always active when at stock setting.

[goof2]

I have an Acer with a T3400 dual core. I haven't seen anything in the BIOS about turning the second core on or off.

[njchopper87]

Nice price, but I haven't heard much positive experiences with emachines.

Just checked my dual core settings.. and both are on. I'm kind of disappointed because I was hoping for a performance boost.

Originally Posted by goof2

I have an Acer with a T3400 dual core. I haven't seen anything in the BIOS about turning the second core on or off.

I went to Performance and then there was a sub-menu for it. Using a dell, though.