newbie Media Center question.

[ROfu]

Hey guys, having never used media center on a dual core platform before.
Could someone tell me if Media center does support dual core cpus?
As i know WindowsXP home, is limited to a single physical cpu. Does windows media Center have this same limitation - and are Dual Cores considered by windows as 2 physical CPUs? or are they considered the same as hyperthreading Cpus.
Having only realy used windowsXP pro - never had to even consider this :/

Going to be getting a Conroe for a new media box for some HD stuff and games, and obviously want to use the chips fully.

Also is it worth using Vista (beta2) which has the media center built in atm, instead of winXP media center - whats the stability like?

Cheers
ROfu

 

[bledd]

i'm not 100% sure, as i use single core

but i was under the strong impression that MCE is pro, with MCE coupled on, and domain joining patched, so it should still support it

wait for someone else who has dual core to comfirm it though


you could try out media portal i've heard its better than MCE, as mce doesn't have a 'play all' button for videos, and after viewing a video, you have a 'delete' option! you can workaround this by giving read-only access to the folder, but its a bit of a silly thing to have in there

 

[ROfu]

awsome just downloading that media portal now, looks very slick and free.
gives me some time to try it out before i get my new chip. only thing thats ashame about it.. is its not compat with xbox360 - ah well minor niggle.

Appreciate the suggestion - as i know this will work with dualcore fine.. as it runs on winXP pro. - cheers bledd.

As far as the original question stands, could someone confirm if MCE is dualcore compatible (allows multithreading properly).

Cheers
ROfu

 

[bledd]

no probs

i just use xp home/pro with MPC when showing my mates how to make a pc to connect up to tv / home cinema

 

[Tommer]

awsome just downloading that media portal now, looks very slick and free.
gives me some time to try it out before i get my new chip. only thing thats ashame about it.. is its not compat with xbox360 - ah well minor niggle.

Appreciate the suggestion - as i know this will work with dualcore fine.. as it runs on winXP pro. - cheers bledd.

As far as the original question stands, could someone confirm if MCE is dualcore compatible (allows multithreading properly).

Cheers
ROfu

i'd like to know this as well, but im pretty sure it would work as media center is a bit like an add on to XP so i cant see why it would change somethijng as fundamental as the cpu.

if you check the thread "my music annoyance" i took a couple pics of media portal.

 

[csmager]

It is XP Pro, so it'd do everything Pro would do. As far as I'm aware, XP Home would make use of Dual Core perfectly.

 

[ROfu]

Cheers gents

I've tried out the mediaPortal a little lunchtime, seems pretty nice. need to try it when i dont have a few hundred things running in the background as they made it very clunky.

Appreciate all the advice concerning MCE, will be installing it when i get all the bits for my new system. (even tho im tempted with media portal).

Cheers
ROfu