[outcastc]

i red windows xp professional eula.but i noticed it only allows 2 cpu.let say i bought 4 core cpu,then what happens ???

[Witt3439]

It's still only a single CPU. The EULA means no more than two individual CPUs by themselves.

[nitroshift]

Put it this way: although Core2Duo and Core2Quad are multi-core processors they still are 1 single physical processor (2 logical processors, respectively 4 logical processors). The term "2 cpu's" in EULA means 2 physical processors. Hope I made it clear enough.

[outcastc]

thank you

[Idontwantspam]

nitroshift, on Mar 10 2008, 04:04 AM, said:

Put it this way: although Core2Duo and Core2Quad are multi-core processors they still are 1 single physical processor (2 logical processors, respectively 4 logical processors). The term "2 cpu's" in EULA means 2 physical processors. Hope I made it clear enough.

Do note however that windows 2000 (not xp and up though) sees cores as individual processors. Meaning a quad core processor is seen as 4 processors. Windows XP recognizes individual cores though.

[nitroshift]

Idontwantspam, on Mar 11 2008, 06:29 AM, said:

Do note however that windows 2000 (not xp and up though) sees cores as individual processors. Meaning a quad core processor is seen as 4 processors. Windows XP recognizes individual cores though.

We were talking about XP But thanks for putting that up

This post has been edited by nitroshift: 11 March 2008 - 01:16 AM

[DeadDude]

does the w2k eula say no more than 2 cpus? if so, then you can't run a quad core on w2k... that is crazy.

then again... 4 cores with w2k could be called crazy by some....