scarface| said:It would act as four processors.
AkumA said:I wonder how that would work.
Blitzkrieg said:There are quite a few motherboard that does it.
I got my dual opteron motherboard from AMD tech tour bundle. If I put in dual core opterons, it'll be like I have 4 opterons running.
We have one of those.Patton said:Nothing happens. You have 4 processors. There are server motherboards available that use four physical Xeon processors.
In terms of gameplay performance, nothing is going to change dramatically. There are no games (that I know of) that take advantage of that kind of power.
I'm pretty sure XP-64bit will run on 4 processors.Polarbear said:Don't plan to run Windows XP on it. XP only runs on dual proc systems. I think a dual core would could as two.
Azra3l said:We have one of those.
And this just in, Akuma is an idiot.
afaik i don't think u can have hyperthreaded dual cores at the momentliggyman said:8 if it's hyperthreaded
AkumA said:For not knowing about computer parts? Ok if that makes me an idiot so be it.
lol
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CompuDude said:I'm pretty sure XP-64bit will run on 4 processors.