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Jack Kelly · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: Rebuild question..

Long story short my PC tanked so I rebuilt. I have a duel-core Asus [sp] board, and XP home, will home support both of my cores, or just one?
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Cal Hurst · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

XP Home will support both cores.
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Jack Kelly · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:17 pm Post subject:

Still going to pro, damn computers...why can't it just assimilate my brain and be done with it.
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Thomas Hunter · Sage Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 572

XP Home only supports one core/cpu. Having a PC with two separate CPUS i found that out the hard way.

To refresh my memory, i looked it up on the internet. XP Home only supports one Processor.

http://www.harmony-central.com/articles/tips/dual_processing_system_tips/
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Jack Kelly · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

Well, Pro time.
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Cal Hurst · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject:

XP Home supports two cores.....

Regardless of what ya found. I would know, I'm using two cores on XP Home
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Halister Marner · **Site Programmer** Joined: 05 Oct 2006 Posts: 2217

XP home supports one physical socket (meaning one physical CPU, the amount of cores within that CPU are irrelevant). So if you have a single dual core processor within your system, XP Home will support both cores.

If you have a server board or a dual socket board with 2 physical CPU's, only XP Pro will support it.

In summary, yes you can use XP home as long as you are using a single physical processor, regardless of how many cores it has.
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Thomas Hunter · Sage Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 572

Like I said, I did have two separate CPUs, a server board. So that is my one and only experience with XP Home.
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