Help choosing operating system for dual xeon build

[longjohn32]

I am attempting to build a dual xeon rig. i have it up and running vista home premium 64bit rather decently but i come to find out with cpu-z that only 1 core is working. i tried to find some info on this but i was only able to find one post that said that you must use either vista ultimate or enterprise. is this true?

note: i am only building this computer for a small project for fun. the build has dual xeons irwindale 2.8ghz a gtx 730, 3gb of ddr2 ecc ram (i am planning on upgrading the ram), on a super x6dvl-eg2 mother board.

 

 

[astranger200]

you need windows server to use both cpus

[Chasem121]

I am attempting to build a dual xeon rig. i have it up and running vista home premium 64bit rather decently but i come to find out with cpu-z that only 1 core is working. i tried to find some info on this but i was only able to find one post that said that you must use either vista ultimate or enterprise. is this true?

note: i am only building this computer for a small project for fun. the build has dual xeons irwindale 2.8ghz a gtx 730, 3gb of ddr2 ecc ram (i am planning on upgrading the ram), on a super x6dvl-eg2 mother board.

you need windows server to use both cpus

 

Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate all allow for systems to have 2 physical processors, I imagine its the same with Vista

[astranger200]

Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate all allow for systems to have 2 physical processors, I imagine its the same with Vista

shit

[HowKnows]

or use linux haha

seriously, it will do the job, its just not windows, which with xeons is probaly a good thing

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 1/7/2016 at 2:49 AM, HowKnows said:

or use linux haha

seriously, it will do the job, its just not windows, which with xeons is probaly a good thing

They are not the same. 

[NumLock21]

You will need a Professional version of the OS to physically dual cpus. Home Edition of any OS will not work, it's been like this since Windows 98.

[royalba94]

On 1/7/2016 at 7:01 PM, astranger200 said:

you need windows server to use both cpus

I am running windows 10 education...

[kiririn]

30 minutes ago, royalba94 said:

I am running windows 10 education...

Windows 10 Education is actually more similar to the Enterprise and Pro versions than the Home version.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions

 

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_wintp-insider_install/what-are-the-editions-of-windows-10-available/195a4038-c061-4902-bc2b-35922c9d41bc

[maxtch]

You need Windows 10 Pro, Education or Enterprise to make use of the two processors if you need Windows, or you can use anything that is not Windows - Linux, BSD or (if you can manage it) OS X.