Ridley5 opened this issue on Dec 12, 2006 · 98 posts
louguet posted Wed, 13 December 2006 at 11:35 AM
You need a server OS to run more than 2 physical CPUs (so 4, 8 etc.). XP Pro sees 2 CPUs max, but each CPU can have many cores. So a Clovertown system (2 cpus x 4 cores) runs well on XP 64, with 8 "cpus" displayed in the task manager. XP Pro 32 bit and XP 64 have the same limitations.