Re: Pentium D and Windows

On 9/27/2006, R. J. Salvi posted this:
"Tom Scales" <tjscales@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AGESg.16015$K02.10468@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Gene E. Bloch" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mn.dbc97d69c5c1611b.1980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 9/27/2006, Tom Scales posted this:
"Joe" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7DEF5A33-7220-4749-981B-9CBD15214C8C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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.

Well, thanks to you and Tom Scales, I guess I can be pretty sure that, to sort of quote myself, I wasted some money - or didn't :-)

Actually, I kind of like having Pro, so I don't really mind the few extra $$ - I was joking on that part, anyway, but I *was* serious about the OP knowing about it.

It wouldn't be the first time there was misinformation abounding. It amuses me that I got it from MS, though.

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