Going from Single core to Dual core need reinstall of Vista?

Harbz · 24 May 2007 at 18:03

I will be changing the CPU in my machine from an 3800 to a X2 3800, effectively going from single cpu to dual. will that require me to reinstall vista or will vista just sort itself out?

Thanks.

TheVoice · 24 May 2007 at 18:09

Shouldn't need to. I went from a 3200+ to an X2 4600+ (albeit with XP) and saw no problems whatsoever.

gareth170 · 24 May 2007 at 19:17

Harbz said:
I will be changing the CPU in my machine from an 3800 to a X2 3800, effectively going from single cpu to dual. will that require me to reinstall vista or will vista just sort itself out?

Thanks.

u don't need to reinstall vista but maybe you'll need to call microsoft to reactivate...

Harbz · 24 May 2007 at 20:04

ok thanks guys.

Bailey_sufc · 25 May 2007 at 10:54

no u wont

bledd · 25 May 2007 at 10:58

TheVoice said:
Shouldn't need to. I went from a 3200+ to an X2 4600+ (albeit with XP) and saw no problems whatsoever.

make sure you're getting 2x cpu's showing in task manager, you might need to install the amd cpu drivers from the amd site to get it working in xp (i did)

TheVoice · 25 May 2007 at 11:33

Yep did that. The drivers also enable Cool n Quiet which drops the CPU speed down (providing you've got the Minimal Power Management power scheme selected in the options), which helps with temperatures. Uses less power that way too.

TC1 · 25 May 2007 at 13:04

gareth170 said:
u don't need to reinstall vista but maybe you'll need to call microsoft to reactivate...

Ha ha, good joke!

Elevon · 25 May 2007 at 13:18

bledd. said:
make sure you're getting 2x cpu's showing in task manager, you might need to install the amd cpu drivers from the amd site to get it working in xp (i did)

No dual core drivers needed for Vista,it has full native dual core support,unlike XP which required drivers and patch to fix dual core problems.

bledd · 25 May 2007 at 15:10

Elevon said:
No dual core drivers needed for Vista,it has full native dual core support,unlike XP which required drivers and patch to fix dual core problems.

i was saying if you had xp

LizardKing · 25 May 2007 at 16:09

If you dont get 2 cpu's graphs showing in the task manager you might have to do a repair reinstall, as it wont have installed the duel core hardware abstraction layer, thats with XP dont know if it applies to vista

Harbz · 26 May 2007 at 05:36

Done it and all working fine in Vista. no need to ring MS either!

thanks.

Jimmy1983 · 26 May 2007 at 13:23

bledd. said:
make sure you're getting 2x cpu's showing in task manager

how can you tell?

gumbald · 26 May 2007 at 13:25

Under the Performance tab, there should be 2 CPU usage graphs next to each other

Jimmy1983 · 26 May 2007 at 13:29

gumbald said:
Under the Performance tab, there should be 2 CPU usage graphs next to each other

ah like this?

gumbald · 26 May 2007 at 13:58

That's the one, looks good.

Jimmy1983 · 26 May 2007 at 14:10

gumbald said:
That's the one, looks good.

Is that how it shoudl look roughly then?

I think I need to get rid off some off my processes, iam running 56. Does that seem a lot?

gareth170 · 26 May 2007 at 15:00

Jimmy1983 said:
Is that how it shoudl look roughly then?

I think I need to get rid off some off my processes, iam running 56. Does that seem a lot?

i have 94 running, so no 56 isn't a lot.. but if u have one 1gb of memory then yes 56 is a lot

sjt269 · 26 May 2007 at 15:02

gareth170 said:
i have 94 running, so no 56 isn't a lot

I have between 28 and 32 running at any one time, not including games. :eek:

gareth170 · 26 May 2007 at 15:10

tTz said:
I have between 28 and 32 running at any one time, not including games.

but i have special software running because i have my whole house connected to my computer. e.g. doors and windows open and close, turn every electric plug sockets on and off, control the tvs and hifis, and many other things....