?? operating system needed for Hyperthreading

[J Overstreet]

Can a Hyperthreading processor be properly run using
the Windows XP "HOME" edition or is it necessary to have
the Professional edition for it to properly function in
Hyperthreading mode ?

Thanks.

 

[Pete Baker]

J

XP Home does *not* support physically separate processors. It does,
however, support hyper-threading which creates 2 logical (or virtual)
processors which share the workload. These will then appear as two
identical processors in XP despite only one physical processor being
present.

XP Pro supports 2 physically separate processors and hyper-threading.

hope that helps
Pete