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enabling conroe 2 procs?!??

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Limp Gawd
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how?
do i need to enable something in windows xp, can winxp use both procs? does anyone understand?
 
thanks.
i just think i don't get, how do i say, full speed? when i am running one application, ok, but when i have 2, it's kind of, slow?
could the reason be because i now only have 1gb of ram (i am going to buy another 3gb later) ?
 
2GB total is a good idea for dual-core. Which programs are you running, that becoming "sluggish"?
 
none. it's when i try to two at same time, i don't feel, that, it's faster. runs like it only has 1 proc.?!
 
To see if he needs to enable the second core in XP. If he is dealing with a new installation, no he does not. If he installed XP as an "ACPI Uniprocessor PC" system with a uni-core processor, and switched to dual-core, then yes, he would have to change the system type to "ACPI Multiprocessor PC".
 
Open the Task Manager, go to the performance tab. How many graphs do you see? You should see two.
 
I think he's just saying " I'm not seeing a difference between single and dual core, is there something else I need to enable?"
 
You won't see a big difference unless you start running multiple apps or do some heavy video encoding. One core may be doing all of the work because it isn't heavy enough. It shouldn't be slow at all unless both cores are very saturated.
 
That is his problem. He is saying that running two apps is slowing down his system more than it should as if he didn't have two cores.
 
If you have a slow hard drive. Everything feels slow until it gets loaded into ram.
 
thanks all.
are winxp applications capable of using dual core? how does dual core works anyway?
 
There are plenty of applications that can take advantage of the second core.

And also, you don't need XP Pro for a dual-core CPU, XP Home will recognize both cores just the same (as would MCE). You just need Pro if you plan on using two CPU sockets.
 
there is still another patch you need for windows XP to make any dual core to work? i had patch something extra to be able to set affinity for my intel core 2 system. it had XP pro.
 
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