RE: Re: Quad Core

2006-11-18 Thread Brandon
Hi David and all, Concerning FSB saturation with Quadcore, I read the following two days ago in the December issue of Maximum PC: Intel claims that analysis of the bus traffic under heavy loads using today's applications indicates that we're not even close to saturating the FSB Intel

RE: Re: Quad Core

2006-11-18 Thread Brandon
Hi Garry, XP Pro supports a maximum of 2 sockets, but you can have as many cores on each socket as Intel/AMD can throw at it. To support 4 sockets you have to move up to Windows Server OSs. Regards, Brandon Thanks for : ... letting me suck up even more babdwidth (why can't I ever get any

RE: Re: Quad Core

2006-11-18 Thread Brandon
Hi, XP Home only supports 1 socket (1 cpu). Brandon iirc Microsoft stated that their licensing was treating multi-core CPUs as a single CPU, so it would only cost per CPU die, not per computing core. So the 2-CPU home license with two Octacore CPUs would give you 16 cores. :) -- Bernd

Re: Hopefully I got it now :-)

2006-11-18 Thread studio
Hi Garry, here's more. Not perfect, I know that, it's under construction ;-) A fast render: http://the-final.com/alien-walk.avi Matthias Hi Matthias : Thanks for that .avi . It's not perfect but it looks good for being so early in the development phase . Looking forward to more and

Re: Hopefully I got it now :-)

2006-11-18 Thread studio
http://the-final.com/alien-walk.avi Matthias Shoot , just noticed you had included a more ex- planatory project with your last mail . Thanks, it looks very cool and hopefully people will be able to use it to build their own characters and try it out . Cheers good luck ! studio

Re: Re: Quad Core

2006-11-18 Thread studio
Hi Garry, XP Pro supports a maximum of 2 sockets, but you can have as many cores on each socket as Intel/AMD can throw at it. To support 4 sockets you have to move up to Windows Server OSs. Regards, Brandon Ah , thanks . studio