Nvidia/ATI Drivers and Dual-Core CPUs Under Windows XP Home

[rms]

There is quite a bit of confusion about "dual-core supporting" drivers now
being released by nvidia and ati.

Anandtech runs most all their tests under Windows XP Pro SP2 now, so this
does not help resolve the question for the average home user running XP
Home, as to whether these drivers will use both cpu cores under Home.

Anyone have more info? It does appear that MS has now announced dual-core
support for Home, but I'm still wondering.

rms

 

[Benjamin Gawert]

There is quite a bit of confusion about "dual-core supporting" drivers now
being released by nvidia and ati.

Anandtech runs most all their tests under Windows XP Pro SP2 now, so this
does not help resolve the question for the average home user running XP
Home, as to whether these drivers will use both cpu cores under Home.

Anyone have more info? It does appear that MS has now announced dual-core
support for Home, but I'm still wondering.

Microsoft often enough said that with "cpus" they consider sockets, not
cores. So yes, even XP home shows two processors if you have a dual-core
cpu...

Benjamin

 

[Glen]

Microsoft often enough said that with "cpus" they consider sockets, not
cores. So yes, even XP home shows two processors if you have a dual-core
cpu...

SP2 is required, at least according to MS's KB article.