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from my understanding, 64 bit operating systems can recognize anything you can throw at it memory wise and quite possibly CPU wise too. just look at the Mac Pro (the tower looking one) that thing has 8 cores (2 quads) and can have up to 32 gb of memory. so really nehalem would just be more cores but whether the programs like FSX and what not will use them all is another story.

I have seen Nehalem run on Vista with all 8 cores on full.

The 64 bit version of vista can handle 128 GB of memory.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... 64bit.mspx



This page shows vista seeing 8 cores in the task manager.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/in ... i=3326&p=4

The 64 bit version of vista can handle 128 GB of memory.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/produc ... 64bit.mspx



This page shows vista seeing 8 cores in the task manager.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/in ... i=3326&p=4

The CPU they show in that article does not have 8 cores. It is a quad-core with Hyperthreading, like in the old P4's.

I am going to fix all the rumors here

1.      A 64bit OS will handle up to 16 TERABYTES of memory. 128+ means 128 and up

I'm on XP Home and this quad works perfectly?

possibly he's talking about processors not cores

possibly he's talking about processors not cores

Logical processor is a core or a virtual one ala hyperthreading.

Old list and I should have edited it

I posted what it allows which is 1 physical processor and how ever many cores that processor has. Pro will allow 2 physical processors and how ever many cores they have

They change a few things with SP updates over the years.