TinyPortal

I am planning to build a new PC. I plan to use twin Athon 64s in it. However, a mate thinks XP wont recogise the 2nd processor. Will they both be recognised and utilised? No point buying the gear if not.

windows xp will recognize both cores of the cpu... about the util... thats a bit different... windows itself will use both cores but not most of the apps do that. So you have to look on the featurelist of a programm you want to use if its take benefit of the dualcore. If not you can try via taskmanager to bind an app to one of the cores.

PowerPyx.

PS: hope you understand my english ;)

Quote from: PowerPyx on January 13, 2006, 05:08:02 PM

windows xp will recognize both cores of the cpu... about the util... thats a bit different... windows itself will use both cores but not most of the apps do that. So you have to look on the featurelist of a programm you want to use if its take benefit of the dualcore. If not you can try via taskmanager to bind an app to one of the cores.

PowerPyx.

PS: hope you understand my english ;)

He is right - having 2 CPU and software that only will use one CPU is a wast. 2 CPU are great on a server setup computer running apps like exchange etc. - spend your money on a faster CPU and more memory and a serial hard drive and have a really fast computer

I agree. And not just more memory but faster memory. You might also want to invest in a faster motheboard also. This can make a vast improvement in speed, if you don't aldready have one. nVidia-based boards are very fast unless someone has a better idea.

Thanks guys. I'll look into the costs etc. Havent bought any of it yet execpt the CD drives.