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    Core 2 Duo and Vista Home Basic

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Hamanu, May 24, 2007.

  1. Hamanu

    Hamanu Notebook Enthusiast

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    My Inspiron 9400 is due to arrive tomorrow and, needless to say, I can't wait to get my hands on it. :)

    In the meantime I'd like to ask whether someone at this forum could solve a problem that's been bugging me these last few days.

    I opted for the Vista Home basic in my configuration since I'm not at all impressed by the Aero and I didn't feel like spending the extra $X on a more powerful version of Windows.

    However, a friend of mine told me that Vista Home (Basic and Premium) doesn't support multiple cores which, in his words, makes my core 2 duo 5600, well, castrated :)

    Is this true or should I stop worrying?

    Tnx
     
    Hamanu, May 24, 2007
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    He is wrong.It supports Dual-Core CPUs but does not support multi-processor (i.e. Two processors on the same motherboard)
     
    mujtaba, May 24, 2007
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  3. postmortem

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    He's not right, multiple cores on one CPU socket are supported... multiple CPU sockets aren't.
     
    postmortem, May 24, 2007
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    It does supoort dual core
     
    mtor, May 24, 2007
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  5. Hamanu

    Hamanu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Thanks a lot! :)

    Now, if only Nvidia solves the driver problem that's causing Galactic Civilizations 2 to freeze and I'll be in for one happy summer :)
     
    Hamanu, May 24, 2007
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