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When I log in remotely to a Windows box (using Windows Remote Desktop), I can see that the Computer Management applet shows 6 "Intel Xeon CPU" entries under "Processors", as shown below.

Intel Xeon CPU

(Based on ramhound's comment this amount of "Processors" is because of HT is not enabled.)

The Lenovo X1 Carbon laptop that I am using, on another hand, has the Intel's Core i5 CPU. Considering that this is a rather lightweight laptop, I would assume that this is just one CPU with 4 cores. The cores are listed in Computer Management applet as shown below.

Intel's Core i5 CPU

I would like to know if the remote computer has multiple processors or just 1 processor with multiple cores. It is not close by so I am not able to get to it and open up the case.

Thus the question I wanted to ask is: How can it be determined if a Windows PC has multiple processors or just 1 processor with multiple cores, without opening the computer case?

user100487
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    Just look up your processor on AMD's or Intel's website. You can also learn what sockets even support multiple processors. In general a motherboard that accepts an Intel Core processors does not support multiple processors, a motherboard that accepts an Intel Xeon processor does support multiple processors. Neither of those screenshots are multiple processors. – Ramhound Mar 02 '16 at 19:29
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    How do I know neither computer has more then a single processor. First you only have 6 cores being reported in the first screenshot, a [Xeon E5645](http://ark.intel.com/products/48768/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5645-12M-Cache-2_40-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI), has 6 cores. A [i5-3427U](http://ark.intel.com/products/64903/Intel-Core-i5-3427U-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_80-GHz) has 4 cores. – Ramhound Mar 02 '16 at 19:38
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    What you're seeing there are logical CPUs. It's slightly confusing to me because yours is showing up correct. You have a dual core CPU with two threads per core so it shows as 4. The Xeon should be showing 12 logical cores because it's a 6 core CPU with 2 threads each. Maybe you just didn't capture all of them. If you had two CPU's it would list 24 CPUs assuming it was a 6 core with two threads per core. . – DrZoo Mar 02 '16 at 19:41
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    I made a typo in my last comment, it has 2 cores, each core supports 2 threads. First screenshot likewise isn't complete since 12 processors should be listed (or HT is disabled on the system). – Ramhound Mar 02 '16 at 20:10
  • Thanks ramhound & DrZoo. I will look into what you guys wrote. I did also update the 1st image to show that it was complete (Computer Management only shows 6 entries). So it's probably because HT is not enabled. –  Mar 05 '16 at 17:41

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