quad cpu on w2k

[Guest joe]

Hello I just got a mother borad and a Q6600 quad cpu. I read in a few

posts that w2k pro only supports 2 out of 4 cores. I also read that in

few ocations the motherboard died. Do I have to upgrade to xp to run a

quad cpu? I will be getting my quad today and I might end up runny

linux and w2k on a virtual machine. Any suggestions?

[Guest Colon Terminus]

Re: quad cpu on w2k

 

 

"joe" <jcharth@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> Hello I just got a mother borad and a Q6600 quad cpu. I read in a few

> posts that w2k pro only supports 2 out of 4 cores. I also read that in

> few ocations the motherboard died. Do I have to upgrade to xp to run a

> quad cpu? I will be getting my quad today and I might end up runny

> linux and w2k on a virtual machine. Any suggestions?

 

You'll need to upgrade to a Server version of Windows to take advantage of

all four processor cores. No desktop verson of Windows, not even Vista,

supports more than two processors.

 

 

 

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[Guest John John]

Re: quad cpu on w2k

 

Colon Terminus wrote:

> "joe" <jcharth@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:83368619-e36b-4a21-bfa4-2306c37b874c@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

>

>>Hello I just got a mother borad and a Q6600 quad cpu. I read in a few

>>posts that w2k pro only supports 2 out of 4 cores. I also read that in

>>few ocations the motherboard died. Do I have to upgrade to xp to run a

>>quad cpu? I will be getting my quad today and I might end up runny

>>linux and w2k on a virtual machine. Any suggestions?

>

>

> You'll need to upgrade to a Server version of Windows to take advantage of

> all four processor cores. No desktop verson of Windows, not even Vista,

> supports more than two processors.

 

The OP is talking about multi-core processors, not multiple processors.

Technically Windows 2000 should be able to handle quad-cores but I

have never seen or tried it so I can't say how well or not it would

work. Windows XP (Home & Pro) and Vista should be able to handle

quad-cores without any problems. The XP Pro and Vista Business versions

should be able to handle two quad-core processors, which in effect would

give the user 8 virtual processors. My hunch is that Windows 2000

should also behave in the same manner but I can't confirm that.

 

John

[Guest John John]

Re: quad cpu on w2k

 

You could try it and let us know! I doubt that trying to install

Windows 2000 on a quad-core board would cause any damage to the board or

processor. And for absolute certainty installing it in a VM would

absolutely not harm the hardware because the virtual operating system

does not have direct access to the hardware! The interaction with the

hardware is all done by the host operating system.

 

John

 

joe wrote:

> Hello I just got a mother borad and a Q6600 quad cpu. I read in a few

> posts that w2k pro only supports 2 out of 4 cores. I also read that in

> few ocations the motherboard died. Do I have to upgrade to xp to run a

> quad cpu? I will be getting my quad today and I might end up runny

> linux and w2k on a virtual machine. Any suggestions?

[Guest ***** charles]

Re: quad cpu on w2k

 

"joe" <jcharth@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:83368619-e36b-4a21-bfa4-2306c37b874c@v67g2000hse.googlegroups.com...

> Hello I just got a mother borad and a Q6600 quad cpu. I read in a few

> posts that w2k pro only supports 2 out of 4 cores. I also read that in

> few ocations the motherboard died. Do I have to upgrade to xp to run a

> quad cpu? I will be getting my quad today and I might end up runny

> linux and w2k on a virtual machine. Any suggestions?

 

The limitation about which you speak is for SOCKETS not cores.

I have a friend with a new quad core cpu and it has Vista Basic 64

on it and it "sees" all 4 cores just fine. W2K can handle up to 2

SOCKETS per motherboard. It comes from a time when each cpu

had only one core. I am unfamiliar with the compatibility of multi

core cpu's and W2K Pro. I think it should work just fine with dual

core single socket systems but as to four core systems, someone else

will have to provide us with real world experience. I don't have the

time/money do to the experimentation.

 

later.....