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That's an excellent selection of games. Your guaranteed hours of fun.
How does XP run with the six cores. Does it ignore five of them?
RedCharles wrote on 2020-12-29, 19:40:How does XP run with the six cores. Does it ignore five of them?
All XP versions will run as many cores as you have, if you use more than one physical CPU I believe you need to get the enterprise version.
XP home can use 1 cpu socket with multiple cores and XP pro can use 2 cpu sockets with upto 32 cores for 32bit and upto 64 cores with XP 64
RedCharles wrote on 2020-12-29, 19:40:How does XP run with the six cores. Does it ignore five of them?
One core limitation is for 98, XP can use up to 32 cores.
Socket 775 - ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA, Pentium E6500K, 4GB RAM, Radeon 9500@9700, ESS Solo-1, Win 98/XP
Socket A - ASRock K7S41GX, AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 512MB RAM, GeForce4 Ti4200, SB Live, Win 98
Thanks for the replies.
And on the topic does XP ignore 8gb out of 12gb of ram then? Or does the 12gb of ram cause problems for XP?
I'm considering a similar build for myself.
With 32 bit addressing it shouldn't matter if you have more than 4gigs since it can't address it
RedCharles wrote on 2020-12-29, 21:14:And on the topic does XP ignore 8gb out of 12gb of ram then? Or does the 12gb of ram cause problems for XP?
It's the same, like with 98 and multi core CPUs. XP just ignores anything above 4GB. I have dualboot XP/7 on my laptop with 12GB of RAM, and XP just see and can use only 4GB. There's no problems with excess amount of RAM in XP.
Socket 775 - ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA, Pentium E6500K, 4GB RAM, Radeon 9500@9700, ESS Solo-1, Win 98/XP
Socket A - ASRock K7S41GX, AMD Athlon XP 3000+, 512MB RAM, GeForce4 Ti4200, SB Live, Win 98
RedCharles wrote on 2020-12-29, 19:40:How does XP run with the six cores. Does it ignore five of them?
It sees all 6 cores and 12 threads
As for ram, xp only sees 2gb's while 7 sees all 12gb's
Have you had any compatibility issues with early 2000s games?
RedCharles wrote on 2021-01-01, 09:20:Have you had any compatibility issues with early 2000s games?
Only game so far was Planet of the Apes 2001, graphic issues.
That game runs fine on my 98 rig.