The 4GB memory limit 3GB in practice is a function of the operating system. I have to ask That's an awful lot of horsepower and money to simply waste. If you're buying that kind of CPU power, you need to be using bit, or the thread management is just going to be awful.
You should also be using Vista in this case and not XP. If you want great performance for XP, don't exceed 4 GB and limit yourself to a single quad core or dual core.
Anything more is just a waste. What do those two things have to do with each other? If you don't already have a good use case for getting the dual-socket Xeon, you don't need it. There's very few reasons to choose XP over Vista, and if you don't already know that Vista won't work for you for a particular reason or another, you should be using it. All that said, you should start a new thread with your questions.
Including more details would be helpful, including what kind of hardware you're looking at buying, what it's going to be used for, and what you're afraid if in a bit OS. Thanks guys, Your input has helped me to decide. Aside from price, I used the CPU bench mark found in "www. This is my 1st time i have ventured to this area of IT. By way is there a strict control here on venturing off topic.. Thanks for the help.
The only advantages of Professional are related to joining a machine to a domain. If you are not going to be doing this, then there is no reason to install Professional. I'm glad to not see you burn your money. Professional also has support for Remote Desktop. That alone swayed my buying decision.
Pro also has support for 2 sockets, while Home only supports 1. If he'd bought the Xeons he would have been required to switch to a different OS. You are more likely to have your thread read if it's new though, simply because some people might gloss over threads they'd already seen. As far as a thread's topic matching the forum it's placed in: Yes. But it seems you've got that part figured out since I noticed your thread in Other Hardware.
It still doesn't make a bit of sense. There's nothing different about the "thread management" by which I guess you mean the scheduler, and one might have said so in bit Windows vs. Vista does get the per-CPU-ready queue structure introduced with Server And one might say that its scheduler is thereby superior. However this is not unique to the bit version of Vista, and it really isn't important with only eight CPUs anyway.
Your input has been great, enough for me to make sensible decision. I have used the remote desktop feature a couple of times when i sought help from Norton to address virus infection or software issues. I will seriously go for the XP-pro version, wrote in other hard ware thread about the xp pro 64 bit option but that it is still early days to make a change to 64 bit system. Many thanks guys. Edit: Check my response in your Other Hardware thread. If you look at benchmarks of 8 or more cores in Windows Vista, the bit outperforms the bit.
I don't have links handy, but I'm sure you can find them easily. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. As the title says, I am wondering if Windows XP pro supports dual core processors without configuring, I am downgrading Upgrading my computer from Vista to XP, and i have dual core.
So if anyone can answer this, Thank you very much in advance. Share Flag. All Answers. Collapse -. XP service pack 2. Thanks RAM 0 Votes. There are several possible fixes Back to Windows Forum. Another data point: Dell sells systems with dual cores and XP Home. If it weren't compatible, they wouldn't do this.
Summary: OP's fine. Not sure if I had to do it, but since it let me I did. Everything seems to be running fine. CPU-Z is now showing 2 cores along with task manager. Thanks again for everyones input. It was appreciated. You must log in or register to reply here.
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