Quad core must be soon ocuk selling mobos

kinggost · 16 Sep 2006 at 15:06

Overclockers are selling the mobos the Abit AW9D-MAX Intel 975X (Socket 775) is quad core ready so cant be long

maddness · 16 Sep 2006 at 15:12

lo well most of the boards there support "Quad core"

Socaddict · 16 Sep 2006 at 15:12

Um, pretty much all the motherboards that support the core 2 duos (at least the 975X and 965 chipset versions) will also support kentsfield.

Not that theres really any point whatsoever...

Biggles 266 · 16 Sep 2006 at 15:44

Well anything that scales past two cores will benefit from it. And your DC numbers will double...

silversurfer · 16 Sep 2006 at 16:58

Do the ATI and VIA chipsets also support kent

maddness · 16 Sep 2006 at 17:12

well the Asrock TwinS didnt work, not sure what chipset that was.

Im not sure if its curable with a bios update or not, but it didnt boot.

edit: ULi 1573 chipset

Defcon5 · 16 Sep 2006 at 20:35

Biggles 266 said:
Well anything that scales past two cores will benefit from it. And your DC numbers will double...

Any thing that can use 2 cores can use 4, they are just multithreaded or singlethreaded

Sylver123 · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:07

One thing I have been meaning to ask is, can Windows XP Professional (32-bit) With SP2 use and fully work with a quad or will it only see a quad core cpu as a dual core?

malcolm · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:10

The common version of XP Pro is the 1 - 2 processor version, so no it won't see all 4 cores.

Another call for Linux?

Sylver123 · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:19

No, i'm quite happy with my Windows XP Professional.

So my windows will only see a 4 cores cpu as a dual? and what about the 64-bit version?

malcolm said:
The common version of XP Pro is the 1 - 2 processor version, so no it won't see all 4 cores.

Another call for Linux?

maddness · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:25

malcolm said:
The common version of XP Pro is the 1 - 2 processor version, so no it won't see all 4 cores.

Another call for Linux?

nonsense! it can see / use all 4 cores

the_running_man · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:29

malcolm said:
The common version of XP Pro is the 1 - 2 processor version, so no it won't see all 4 cores.

Another call for Linux?

Not sure that's right. You'd only have 1 processor but 4 cores so Windows should see all the cores.

maddness · 16 Sep 2006 at 21:31

the_running_man said:
Not sure that's right. You'd only have 1 processor but 4 cores so Windows should see all the cores.

deffinatly does

Justintime · 16 Sep 2006 at 22:10

malcolm said:
The common version of XP Pro is the 1 - 2 processor version, so no it won't see all 4 cores.

Another call for Linux?

Go on then you elite linux haxxor

malcolm · 16 Sep 2006 at 22:49

OK, I stand corrected, but does it really run 4 processes, one on each of the 4 cores?

Sylver123 · 17 Sep 2006 at 00:58

Thanks for the response

So even on this windows I should be able to use quad core fully? and not need to get my hands on other os like the newer 64-bit version or Windows Vista.

Socaddict · 17 Sep 2006 at 01:32

Windows XP home cansee a single processor. However, that processor can have as many cores as you like (check out the affintiy settings in taskmanger if you don't belive, allows you to set the affinty between up to 32 cores). I think XP pro can handle multi phycial CPU PCs.

oceaness · 17 Sep 2006 at 12:13

XP Home is one CPU, XP Pro is up to 2 CPU's.

A CPU can have as many cores as the CPU manufacturers can manage.

kleox64 · 17 Sep 2006 at 15:25

XP Pro will use a maximum of 2 physical sockets however only 4 logical processors can be used, hence a single socket quad core cpu will work. DUAL socket quad core will not, in this case you will need Server 2003 STD or above.

Jokester · 17 Sep 2006 at 15:34

Defcon5 said:
Any thing that can use 2 cores can use 4, they are just multithreaded or singlethreaded

Depends entirely on how many threads a program uses, I wouldn't be surprised if most multithreaded games only actually spawn two seperate threads at the moment.

Jokester