AMD

[dna]

AMD makes a return to the market in a big way

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... _in_stores

[blueznl]

First see the performance in a good review

But this had me thinking about something else... how are things with licensing, and how are things with multi core support?

I seem to recall XP (and Vista?) were / are having troubles with 'strange' numbers of cores, ie. 3, 6, etc. but I can't seem to find anything on the subject. Could be a glitch in my memory then

Is there somewhere a page that lists for each Windows OS (XP, Vista, 7, Home, Starter, Pro, Server, and whatnot) the number of CPU sockets and the number of CPU cores each OS support?

I could only find something on memory, not on CPU's.

[Thorium]

I think there isnt a limit for cores. Maybe something like 128 or 1024.

[ts-soft]

There is no limit on cores, only on real cpu's.
WinXP Home 1 CPU, WinXP Pro 2 CPU and so on.

[GWarner]

There may be nothing to it but CPU with a number of cores not equal to a power of two just seems odd to me. But then again, my GTX-275 has 240 cores which is not a power of two either.

[Thorium]

There may be nothing to it but CPU with a number of cores not equal to a power of two just seems odd to me. But then again, my GTX-275 has 240 cores which is not a power of two either.

Thats only because for programers seems all odd which isnt a power of 2. ^^

[GWarner]

Thats only because for programers seems all odd which isnt a power of 2. ^^

Could be, I've also heard that the three core chips were actually quad core chips with a bad core so they disable the bad core with a laser by cutting some traces, then sell it as a three core chip. In theory it sounds fine but I have to wonder if there aren't any side effects to that disabled bad core. Is it really disabled or only partially disabled and they don't know it.

Anyway, I think I'll just stand pat with my trusty quad cure phenom ii CPU for now...