Two 1.6 Processors = 3.2, will games read it as a 1.6?

Question

I've decided that this might be the problem I've been having. On my Acer Aspire 5610Z, I have 0.99 GB of RAM, two 1.6GHZ Intel T2060, to be exact, processors, and I am not quite sure on the video card... if anyone knows where I can look to figure this out, I'd really appreciate you telling me.

In any case, some games that I definitely have the requirements for refuse to work. I've determined that it could either be my video card, or the processors.

Game requires:

512MB of RAM

2.0 GHZ processor

128 MB video card with 2.0 pixel shader

I have:

0.99 GB of RAM

Two 1.6GHZ processors, which should equal 3.2, if I've been told right

Video card unknown.

Answer 1

You're running a Dual Core, which is in fact 2 separate processors mashed into one, unlike the Core 2 Duos that actually have 2 cores in a single die.

And no, you don't have 3.2Ghz, you have two 1.6Ghz processors. They cannot work as one, so they are not combined to equal 3.2Ghz.

Answer 2

It's probably the video card since your CPU is greater that a 2.0 GHz single core. You can find your video card by going to control panel and device manager. Look under video adaptors and you will see what windows recognizes it as. I am guessing it is an integrated Intel graphics that probably does not have enough video memory.  

Answer 3

You have a dual core processor.

Two cores is not two processors.

Also two 1.6 Ghz processors don't equal a 3.2 processor. It matters how they are connected and what not.

Answer 4

yes, ive seen some games require 3.2ghz, and who has one that fast, that counts as the total amount

Answer 5

You have the wrong laptop for games, you have 2 separate processors mashed into 1 so it is like having 2 1.6GHz processors and they can not be combined so any one program can only be allocated 1.6GHZ, also they have smart step technology to save battery so which is not very good at allocating processor power to games, if you would have bought the single core 2.00GHz or cheap Celeron M 550 2.00 GHz your game would run great, the only thing those core 2 processors are good for is multi-tasking, if you don't do alot of multi-tasking then they run way slower than the single core or celeron ones for everything else.

Answer 6

the only way to have 2 CPU's is if you have a Skulltrail motherboard, are you sure you have 2 CPU's or a Dual Core CPU.