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I was going to suggest it could be dual-socket, with HyperThreading enabled, but looks like the survey is HyperThreading aware and only counts real cores.

So must be Quad Socket motherboards.



I don't think there was even any dual dual-core solutions for x86 available in 2004... So must have been some quad socket weirdness...


Unless I'm misremembering, the first dual-core CPU on the market was the Athlon 64 X2 in 2005, so I agree that these results are likely from servers running Steam.

Edit: a quick bit of google tells me both Intel and AMD released dual core CPUs in May 2005, with Intel beating AMD by a few weeks, so there you go.


I’m guessing it was game server software running on rack mounted servers.




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