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Melmo
Will Windows XP work with a Dual Xeon CPU setup usinf
Hyper Threading? Or will this be seen as 4 CPUs instead
of 2 ?
Hyper Threading? Or will this be seen as 4 CPUs instead
of 2 ?
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Yves Leclerc
XP Pro will work! XP Home will ignore the second physical processor..
The system will see them as 4 processors.
Y.
The system will see them as 4 processors.
Y.
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Pete Baker
Melmo
Only XP Professional supports 2 physically separate processors and
hyper-threading.
If it is working properly, with Hyper Threading enabled, then it *should*
look like there are 4 CPUs present - 2 logical (or virtual) CPUs for each
physical processor.
XP Home, on the other hand, does *not* support physically separate
processors. It does, however, support hyper-threading which creates 2
logical (or virtual) processors which share the workload. In such a case 2
identical logical processors will be seen.
hope that helps
Pete
"Melmo" wrote in message
Only XP Professional supports 2 physically separate processors and
hyper-threading.
If it is working properly, with Hyper Threading enabled, then it *should*
look like there are 4 CPUs present - 2 logical (or virtual) CPUs for each
physical processor.
XP Home, on the other hand, does *not* support physically separate
processors. It does, however, support hyper-threading which creates 2
logical (or virtual) processors which share the workload. In such a case 2
identical logical processors will be seen.
hope that helps
Pete
"Melmo" wrote in message
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Bastet
Melmo said:Will Windows XP work with a Dual Xeon CPU setup usinf
Hyper Threading? Or will this be seen as 4 CPUs instead
of 2 ?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't think Xeon processors (which,
to my mind, can be thought of as a 64-bit P3 (yes, I'm well aware they're
not)) supported HyperThreading - I thought this was an invention Intel
dreamt up for the later P4s?
FYI, if you wish to use a dual CPU board you must have XP Pro. Home cannot
support 2 processors (of course, this doesn't apply to HT CPUs as that's one
processor masquerading as two).
M
Melmo
Thanks for the input guys.
And to clear my initial question up a little bit I was
referring to the P4 Xeon with HT enabled running XP Pro.
We run quite a few FPS gameing servers and have found XP
Pro to be the best performing OS for this purpose. I
have Win 2003 Server, but I really didn't want to use the
license for a game server, and I didn't want all of the
extra overhead from the services that were not required.
Thanks again for your help!
And to clear my initial question up a little bit I was
referring to the P4 Xeon with HT enabled running XP Pro.
We run quite a few FPS gameing servers and have found XP
Pro to be the best performing OS for this purpose. I
have Win 2003 Server, but I really didn't want to use the
license for a game server, and I didn't want all of the
extra overhead from the services that were not required.
Thanks again for your help!
P
Pete Baker
Glad to be of assistance Melmo....
and thanks for the follow-up.
Pete
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and thanks for the follow-up.
Pete
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