Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition supports Quad Core

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Published: Tuesday 26th September, 2006 | Author: Steve Kerrison
Companies: Intel (All Intel content)

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One of the key differences between XP Home Edition and XP Pro was that XP home wouldn't have scalable processor support - of course at the time this wasn't a concern, but now with us being on the dawn of Quad core this may well raise a question.

"Scalable processor support – up to two-way multi-processor support."

Intel today confirmed that XP Home would support their upcoming Quad Core Part - Kentsfield.

More on this as we get it, and without doubt it would be nice to see some Quad Core numbers, right? Let us know your take in the HEXUS.community.

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Posted by DR - Tue 26th Sep 2006, 1:22pm

Quote: chuckskull
Theres been a few engineering sample kentsfields around for a while, no-one has reported any problems.

People who have ES Kentsfields won't be running XP Home :POQuote

Posted by DR - Tue 26th Sep 2006, 1:31pm

Quote: nichomach
Incorrect; 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.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/howtobuy/choosing2.mspx

http://g.msn.com/9SE/1?http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/1/e/f1ecd771-cf97-4d98-9a1b-b86e3f24e08f/multicore_hyperthread_brief.doc&&DI=6066&IG=e000a7fe20554e68b430224b2c2db843&POS=1&CM=WPU&CE=1&CS=AWP&SR=1

Yep but this is effectively 2 Dual Core parts bolted together, and again no one knew how it would react, anyway its just a simple news story :)

Quote: chuckskull
I thought it was by number of sockets. not been lucky/rich enough to play with multiple processors in a long time though :(

Yes but this is the first Quad Core Part - so people were uncertain how MS OS will detect and reactQuote

Posted by TheAnimus - Tue 26th Sep 2006, 7:53pm

I've been a strong advocate for dualies for enthusiasts since my farthers dual PII-350, it consitantly kicked the arse of my AMD 800mhz.

I spoke to an MS contact about this a little more than 2 years ago now, and was told that the offical line was to allow home users hyperthreading and similar price bracket parralleism, easyest way is to license per socket. quite sensible at the time, but now seams a tad unfairQuote

Posted by freakeystyley34 - Wed 27th Sep 2006, 10:48am

Quote: David
People who have ES Kentsfields won't be running XP Home :PO

Agreed, if they can afford es kentsfields they're hardly not gonna be able to afford the extra for pro!Quote

Posted by Steve B - Wed 27th Sep 2006, 1:39pm

they quite possibly wont even be running xp pro. Just a totally stripped down version, allowing them to suicide boot their LN2 cooled pc:) in a minimal amount of time.Quote

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