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Is it true that Windows 7 takes advantage of all cores?

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Bronze Win 7 badge Scotteq   12-06-2008 at 08:17:38 AM
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Yes - As does Vista



Now - As for the programs you install, that's a different discussion: It matters not if the hardware is multi core, and the OS is multi core, when you have a single threaded program running.

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cjl   12-06-2008 at 11:29:59 AM
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As stated above, both 7 and Vista are designed to level the load across all cores as evenly as possible, while XP will tend to just load up the first core until it is nearly full. If the program is only single threaded though, the program still will not benefit from multi core. The OS can't add more threads to a single threaded program.

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jkflipflop98   12-06-2008 at 12:22:22 PM
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No, but it can put everything else on 3 of the cores, thereby freeing up one core to do nothing but process your game. So yes, multicore does help even single threaded applications.

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gregor30   12-09-2008 at 09:00:46 AM
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What about 32 & 64 bit tecnology? I have read an article that win7 will support both of technologies (in one os?)

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randomizer   12-09-2008 at 09:12:21 AM
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^ That has been the case since XP-64 I think, or at least Vista 64.

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jamesgoddard   12-09-2008 at 09:43:45 AM
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Windows 7 is going to use the same kernel as Vista - so will behave in exactly the same way to Vista in this regard

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daskrabbe   12-09-2008 at 10:22:40 AM
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Yes, like all other OSs from this millenium.

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amdfangirl   12-13-2008 at 12:36:37 PM
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randomizer wrote :

^ That has been the case since XP-64 I think, or at least Vista 64.



Yes, since XP-64 for the itanic

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Tindytim   12-22-2008 at 04:16:36 AM
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XP64 is for x86, the version of XP for itanium processors is 64 bit though.

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