Hyper-Threading and XP Home

As long as you only have one physical processor, you can
use XP Home. The key is physical -- the logical CPUs
shown by hyperthreading are detected fine in XP Home.

>-----Original Message-----
>I know that Windows XP Home can only support one

physical processor. I am

>planning to build a new system using the Pentium 4 3.0c

processor with

>hyper-threading. Will I have to upgrade to XP Pro for

my system to work to

>its fullest, since hyper-threading shows itself as two

processors?

>Thanks
>Brian
>
>
>.
>

Nope. Home supports hyper-threading just fine. it knows the difference
between that and two physical processors.

"Brian Kannady" <bkannady@sjmc.org> wrote in message
news:%23djLEosWDHA.652@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

> I know that Windows XP Home can only support one physical processor. I am
> planning to build a new system using the Pentium 4 3.0c processor with
> hyper-threading. Will I have to upgrade to XP Pro for my system to work

to

> its fullest, since hyper-threading shows itself as two processors?
> Thanks
> Brian
>
>