Limitation is per CPU socket, not cores.
Any number of cores for any of the Vistas:
http://developer.amd.com/articles.jsp?id=123&num=1
Limited number of processors containing those multiple cores based on the
version of Vista:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Suppor...nts.html#Basic
Starter, Basic and Home Premium: 1 processor socket
Business, Enterprise and Ultimate: 2 processor sockets
"***** charles" <me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have heard that different versions of Vista supports
> different numbers of cores in the cpus. Can anyone
> shead some light on the number of cores each of the
> following supports?
>
> Vista Home Basic 32bit
> Vista Home Premium 32bit
> Vista Ultimate 32bit
> Vista Home Basic 64bit
> Vista Home Premium 64bit
> Vista Ultimate 64bit
>
> Any other info on multithreading and virtualization?
>
> thanks,
> charles....
>
>