Im currently pricing up a new homebrew PC around a Core 2 Quad - in an attempt to save some £££ - can I get away with using XP SP2 Home edition - or do you need the professional version to run a quad core?
Im currently pricing up a new homebrew PC around a Core 2 Quad - in an attempt to save some £££ - can I get away with using XP SP2 Home edition - or do you need the professional version to run a quad core?
Thankyou!
XP Home allows ONE physical processor with as many cores as you can get. So the QX6700 should work, too
"XP Home is limited to single CPU support. XP Pro supports two processors. Microsoft, however made the decision that CPU support was by socket, not by core, something that extends across their product line from XP Home through Windows Server 2003 to SQL Server etc."
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Im currently pricing up a new homebrew PC around a Core 2 Quad - in an attempt to save some £££ - can I get away with using XP SP2 Home edition - or do you need the professional version to run a quad core?
Thankyou!
XP Home allows ONE physical processor with as many cores as you can get. So the QX6700 should work, too
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.p...ighlight=Intel
"XP Home is limited to single CPU support. XP Pro supports two processors. Microsoft, however made the decision that CPU support was by socket, not by core, something that extends across their product line from XP Home through Windows Server 2003 to SQL Server etc."