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How many processors will vista take....
How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista
Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? Thanks, Steve |
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How many processors will vista take....
"Steve Thompson" wrote in message
... How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? Yup. It's the 'Home' versions which can only handle one physical CPU (although multiple cores it handles fine). -- Paul Smith, Yeovil, UK. Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User. http://www.dasmirnov.net/blog/ http://www.windowsresource.net/ *Remove nospam. to reply by e-mail* |
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How many processors will vista take....
Vista Business and Ultimate can utilize two physical processors (think
"sockets"). The number of logical processors (cores) does not matter. 8 processors would require Server Enterprise or Data edition. This has always been true of any version of Windows since W2k. Consumer editions can only use one socket and business two. Any more requires Server; Standard can use 4, Enterprise 8, and Data Center can handle up to 64. "Steve Thompson" wrote in message ... How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? Thanks, Steve |
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How many processors will vista take....
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 19:25:00 -0400, "Steve Thompson"
wrote: How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? No. or 2 quad processors? Yes. Only Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise support more than one physical processor. They each support two processors, but not more than that. However, all versions of Vista support an unlimited number of cores in a single processor. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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How many processors will vista take....
"Steve Thompson" wrote in message
... How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? I wouldn't be such a fool with your money. With hardly any large professional applications that are multi-threaded, there is no real need for that many cores, even on high-end workstations. Wait until the applications you use are multi-threaded to make use of the cores. They will come about soon, as processor have gone parallel (because AMD and Intel were experiencing diminishing power gains from higher frequencies). Desktop computers cannot, at this stage, benefit from so many cores in the same ways servers can. You'd have to do a massive amount of multi-tasking to make it worthwhile, and in that case you'd most probably be better served splitting the roles between different computers, for practicality, depending on what you are doing. Or are you planning on running multiple virtual machines or something? Saving the money by not getting the very expensive motherboard required, and processors could be better spent on getting the fastest dual or quad processor instead, a high-end graphics card (depending on what you are doing) and VelociRaptor hard drives. ss. |
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How many processors will vista take....
There may be a hard limit of 64 cores, regardless of how many physical
sockets. In a partner presentation about SBS 2008 RC0 there was a slide that mentioned a 64 core limit. I questioned this and was told due to the way the kernel was coded it was a physical limit that existed in the underlying Server 2008. There was some disagreement amongst the presenters but the consensus was the limit probably exists. As Vista and Server 2008 share the same kernel, this same limit if true, exists in Vista as well. I haven't been able to find any documentation about this. Maybe someone else knows for sure. -- Kerry Brown MS-MVP - Windows Desktop Experience: Systems Administration http://www.vistahelp.ca/phpBB2/ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Vista Business and Ultimate can utilize two physical processors (think "sockets"). The number of logical processors (cores) does not matter. 8 processors would require Server Enterprise or Data edition. This has always been true of any version of Windows since W2k. Consumer editions can only use one socket and business two. Any more requires Server; Standard can use 4, Enterprise 8, and Data Center can handle up to 64. "Steve Thompson" wrote in message ... How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? Thanks, Steve |
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How many processors will vista take....
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:47:11 +0100, "Paul Smith"
wrote: "Steve Thompson" wrote in message ... How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? Yup. It's the 'Home' versions which can only handle one physical CPU (although multiple cores it handles fine). And that's more a limitation of the license, rather than the OS's technical ability. Donald L McDaniel |
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How many processors will vista take....
"Donald L McDaniel" wrote in message
... On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:47:11 +0100, "Paul Smith" wrote: "Steve Thompson" wrote in message ... How many processor will Vista take advantage of? I'm using Windows Vista Ultimate. Will it handle 8 processors? or 2 quad processors? Yup. It's the 'Home' versions which can only handle one physical CPU (although multiple cores it handles fine). And that's more a limitation of the license, rather than the OS's technical ability. Donald L McDaniel Thanks all, I appreciate it! Steve |