How many ?

[LeBo]

How may cores can someone run on XP Pro and still be legal or how many will XP Pro run (like quad cores)?

[BlackAdder]

I didn't think the amount of core's you run have anything to do with the legality of running XP....that is a good question though.

[PoorBoy]

How may cores can someone run on XP Pro and still be legal or how many will XP Pro run (like quad cores)?

Windows XP Pro allows 2 sockets with processors in them (actual processors) and as many cores as you want, as long as they are on two processors ...

[AQUAJOE]

Windows XP Pro allows 2 sockets with processors in them (actual processors) and as many cores as you want, as long as they are on two processors ...

Yup Poorboy is correct XP Pro can support only 2 physical processors.

XP Home edition can only support 1 physical processor.

[riaan]

PoorBoy, do you know of the /PAE boot.ini extension for getting Win 32bit to pick up more than 3GB's of RAM?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...n/bootini.mspx

Has anyone tried this and got it working? Might need some extra options...

[PoorBoy]

PoorBoy, do you know of the /PAE boot.ini extension for getting Win 32bit to pick up more than 3GB's of RAM?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...n/bootini.mspx

Has anyone tried this and got it working? Might need some extra options...

I've tried to get 4gb to work myself with using the /PAE boot.ini extension but didn't have any luck, all it would read is 3gb. 32-Bit Win XP Pro just doesn't support 4gb of Memory I don't think, from what I've heard Vista does though ...