Does windows xp work with quad core

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Status Not open for further replies. Hey everyone. Ive got Vista Ultimate and a few things don't work. Its like that on a good few windows i open. Can't think of anything to fix them. Thats jus one of the many problems.

Anyway if I was to start fresh with XP again would it take full advantage of my quad core and all that? I'm going to answer your heading, seeming when others click your message, that's what they expect to answer, I know I did.

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Share More sharing options Followers 0. Recommended Posts. Mikep Posted June 30, An X and Y address line, a read line, and an inhibit line. The memory manager would have to inhibit against the destructive read of the cores value in a read operation, and allow a change on a write operation.

This memory operated in the millisecond range. The one thing that each programmer knew was that he owned all the memory in the computer. When his or her application was running, it was the only one taking up resources. This programming technique followed for years. When Apple and IBM came out with their respective desktop computers, not much thought was given to performing multitasking operations. Again, the person who wrote the program had complete control of the system.

Programs as exotic as "Visicalc", and "PeachTree Accounting" were single threaded applications. As users wanted to do more with the desktop computers programs such as "Top Level" who else remembers that one? The problem here was that many of the programs were still being written as though the programmer "owned" the machine.

A nasty problem of programmer hygiene where they would not "clean up" after themselves closing open files, releasing allocated memory, deleting stacks,etc. These were the zombies left running in the memory that would chew up more resources than existed. So there was quite a bit of fingerpointing as to which application was at fault. Not, that it's that much clearer now Multi-threaded programming requires a lot of thought in the development process. Thread tuning involves a great working knowledge of the system that the application will be running on, a bag of chicken bones, and a whole bunch of black magic.

But when it's right, you know it. Dec 8, 0 18, 0. You meant "reply" didn't you? I guess I thought you might learn something. Dekasav Distinguished. Sep 2, 1, 0 19, It is an interesting and useful post, necromantic as it is. Mhzjunkie Distinguished. Feb 8, 1 0 18, 0. LOL Dekasav necromantic. Feb 12, 1 0 18, 0. Uncle Jim, your is the most thorough and detailed response I have ever seen on this issue.

The question may have been 2 years old, but how many people have quad core processors. I'm running an Athlon with 1 gb of ram and an ok video card. The only person that complains is my 15 year old son who is getting into some graphic intensive games. All of his friends have or are building monster systems. Seems like a little excess Thanks again for your wonderful commentary, some of us appreciate it when we are looking for answers to questions like these NOW Feb 18, 1 0 18, 0.

Amen fkhdad, some of us really appreciate the why's and not just an answer as well. JohnnyLucky Illustrious. May 30, 10, 9 42, Thanks for the explanation! TheVanman Distinguished. Apr 19, 8 0 18, 0. I know that I am a latecomer to the conversation here, and the technical information about the history of memory development and multitasking was a great read.

Thank you for that. I now understand that most programs are written to use only one anyway. However, I do not see where the original question was really clarified. If possible, can I get clarification whether or not XP Pro 32 bit will see and potentially use all 4 processing paths in a Quad processor Say, a Core 2 Quad Q for instance?

Or do I need to go buy Vista to see all the potential processor paths? I know that XP Pro 32 bit will see and use at least 2 processor paths, the example being my old Intel ghz hyperthread processor shows up as 2 in task manager.

Maybe I am unclear on how the multi threaded processors work. If I get this straight They are both dual core, and the quad is different in that it multi tasks each core making it 2 hyper threaded cores where the straight core 2 has 2 non-multi tasked cores. The real question here is, Will using XP Pro 32 bit render the Quad to half a processor, essentially making it only a Dual?

Or does a Quad show up as 2 processors in task manager, even in Vista? I am trying to decide whether to purchace a Q or an E , and if I need to budget in Vista if I decide to fully use the Q I would rather stick with XP if I can get away with it.

Thanks for all the insight! Raviolissimo Distinguished. Apr 29, 0 18, 0. TheVanman :. Nov 18, 20, 2 74, 2, Have a look in task manager. All four cores will be showing. XP is a multithreaded OS. B-Unit Distinguished. Oct 13, 1, 1 19, 5. But I see you have some fundamental misunderstandings. The Core2Quad doesnt use hyperthreading.

Thanks for the comments. Here is a tip for you technical folks. If you you get an error message with the exception hexidecimal code like DFC0A on an i type system, windows, linux, etc. Look at the rightmost character. In this example the "A".