What applications support mult-processors under XP?

[Guest]

Does anyone have any suggestions on what applications support mult-processors
under XP? such as Microsoft Office.
On current market, 1 core CPU contains 4 CPUs, but what kind of applications
will support running mult-processors in order to maximize the usage of CPU
resource. Does anyone have any suggestions why not build a single faster CPU
rather than a core CPU containing 4 CPUs?
Thank you for any suggestions
Eric

 

[DL]

Is it not a question of do 'these' applications support multiple cores, info
on such should be avilable from the manu. web sites, rather than being told
what apps, which may be of no use to you, support multiple cores.

 

[baynole]

Does anyone have any suggestions on what applications support mult-processors
under XP? such as Microsoft Office.
On current market, 1 core CPU contains 4 CPUs, but what kind of applications
will support running mult-processors in order to maximize the usage of CPU
resource. Does anyone have any suggestions why not build a single faster CPU
rather than a core CPU containing 4 CPUs?
Thank you for any suggestions
Eric

One reason they got away from building single core, faster CPUs is
heat, esp. in notebooks. The multi-cores run much cooler.
I find a dual-core is able to do more things at once, whether or not
the apps were specifically designed for the set-up.