Re: Pentium D and Windows

"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 9/27/2006, Tom Scales posted this:
"Joe" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quick, stupid question.

I was thinking of building a new pc and was interested in the duel
core/core
duo cpu's. Is windows xp or any software capable of actually using the
duel
core type cpu's or does it just use it as a normal cpu?

Thanks

Joe

Sure. All versions of XP, including XP Home, support both processors.

Tom

When I bought this dual processor CPU, my research on Microsoft's site
indicated that XP Home would not support dual processors.

If I read it wrong, I wasted some money, I guess, but if I read it right,
the OP should be aware of this :-)

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There was misinformation on MS site early in the XP development and it
still floats around today. Home supports up to 2 processors. In fact, if
you search microsoft.com right now, it says that it does not all over the
place, but you'll see all those documents are old.

Tom


To flesh it out a bit, Microsoft OS's are licensed by the number of CPU
sockets, not by the number of cores. XP Home is licensed for only *one*
socket, but the CPU that fits into that socket may have more than one core
and/or HT support. Having said that, I have yet to try an EE CPU to verify
that dual core+HT are both supported at the same time in XP Home.
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RJ


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