XP home vs Professional.... difference for NLE performance?

[DinoXP]

Hi i am gonna build a machine to do video editing and I was reading a guide
from video guys and they say"

WinXP is still the best choice for NLE.
We run XP Pro in all our demo machines and personal NLE systems. We give
WinXP our highest recommendation and it is the OS you should be building your
new NLE system on.

1. We recommend getting Win XP Pro.Win XP Home is fine for home video /
hobbiest work. XP Pro is better for serious NLE work. It supports dual
processors, Hyperthreading and networking.
2. With a WinXP system, the more power you give it, the more powerful
your NLE system will be.
3. WinXP will take full advantage of CPU speed and Win XP Pro fully
supports dual processors. "


now the question I have is does XP treat core2duo processors similar to dual
processors....?

would i get an increase in performance from an E6750 in an xp Pro
environment versus a Home environment?

thanks for any insights

 

[sgopus]

Pro treats them as Dual processors, I can't anser your question about
performance

 

[Bob Knowlden]

I believe that you would not see any performance advantage to XP Pro over
Home. They use the same code base, I've read.

Home supports a single CPU *socket*. I haven't tried XP Home with a quad
core CPU, but it definitely gives full support to a dual core.

Pro supports 2 *sockets*, so you could, in principle, support two quad core
CPUs with it. (They would have to be Xeon processors, as the multiple socket
motherboards don't support multiple regular desktop CPUs.)

XP Pro offers some additional advantages, but they are mostly relevant
within corporate networks.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

I have seen some gamers using XP Pro only because XP Home sounds so
unsophisticated.

How much RAM do you wish to use? If you want to install more than 3 GB, you
may want to consider a 64 bit OS. I chose Vista 64 so that 4 GB of RAM would
be fully used. (I don't do NLE, though.) If you contemplate Vista, make sure
that all of the software that you need to run is compatible with it, and
that drivers exist for all of your peripherals. If both of those conditions
are met, you may be happy with Vista.


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