Re: XP on Dual Quad Core Xeon by Daniel
Daniel
Sun Jun 29 09:35:21 PDT 2008
Hi,
Yeah, video transcoding is exactly what we want to do with this thing, and
we are going to double check with the app publisher to make sure it will
take advantage of 8 cores.
Thank you.
Dan.
"V Green" <vanceg@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> "Carl Kaufmann" <cwkaufmann@cox.net> wrote in message
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>> Daniel Jameson wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Does anyone know definitively whether Windows XP will run on dual quad
>> > core
>> > Xeon hardware and use all 8 cores?
>> >
>>
>> XP doesn't care about cores/socket, only sockets. XP Pro will use
>> both, Home will use only one.
>
> If what you mean is that XP will only see 1 core
> per physical socket, that is incorrect.
>
> I am running 2 dual-core Xeons on an ASUS
> PC-DL and Task Manager shows 4 CPU Usage
> graphs. XP "thinks" it has 4 logical processors.
>
> As far as "using" all your cores, the OS will, but
> very few applications know how to do this (some
> imaging software, some video transcoding software)
> and will continue to poke along using only 1 core.
>
> But multi-cores will allow you to run lots of apps
> simultaneously at full speed and will offload OS chores to other
> cores.
>
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>> Carl
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