Re: Dual-core and/or SMP + Win9x/ME
Elektron <elektron_rc5-FFYn/[email protected]> Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:10:36 +0000
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On 20 Oct, 2005, at 23:48, Nathan Klassen wrote: > >>> Scenario 4: See scenario 3. You WILL need an OS supporting the >>> amount of >>> CPU's in your system. Note that if you have 2 dual core processors, >>> your OS >>> will need to support 4 CPU's. >> >> >> I suspected it. Thanks for this verification, it is extremely >> important. >> > This is not necessarily true and I'll toss you a few links. > First off not all dual core CPUs support hyperthreading - and beyond > that not all INTEL dual core CPU's support hyperthreading. > Only the 'Extreme Edition' Dual Core's support hyperthreading Actually, if you have two dual-core CPUs, I think it still appears as 4 CPUs to the OS. - Beep _______________________________________________ Hardware mailing list Hardware-Ra3b/QYEcJ3d140v2zMXi0fjHoOT/h/[email protected] http://lists.distributed.net/mailman/listinfo/hardware