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John	posted on 4th Apr 06 at 17:27
	Burning dvds will be more about getting data from the hard drive to the writer quick enough, if the game happened to be heavily accessing the hard drive another 2 cores won't matter.
Jules	posted on 4th Apr 06 at 17:23
	Super sweet, BIOS all flashed and it nows makes fulkl use of the duel core - burning DVD's whilst playing games with no side effects to the games performance? Top one nice one sorted!
John	posted on 3rd Apr 06 at 00:51
	Media center is just a program thats instaled on top of windows like any other program.
luciaadr	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 22:58
	Nuts, just found it. You were right, XP Pro it is. Thanks for pointing that out:thumbs: Alternatively, doesnt Media Centre edition have all of pro's functionality?
luciaadr	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 22:47
	quote: Originally posted by PaulW what version of XP are you running?? If its XP Home, then no-way, as it doesnt support dual core/dual cpu systems, its only a single CPU OS Ive not heard this? You've got me worried now because i was just about to put an order down for a dual core pc that ships with xp home. I googled it, got nothing to confirm or deny it. It would seem odd that id have to purchase an upgrade for the systemto actually use the processor as AMD intended? Computers here: http://www.meshcomputers.com/Default.aspx?PAGE=PRODUCTVIEWPAGE&USG=PRODUCT&ENT=PRODUCT&KEY=72402
Jules	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 20:57
	My mobo is the A8N-SLi (Standard) - will try and update thepatch - if you never hear from me again then assume that it all went very very wrong! :thumbs:
Dom	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 20:11
	chance is, theres probably a bios update that you can do to enable dual core - check out the download/support pages for that mobo on asus website :thumbs:
Jamescorsa97	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 19:45
	I'm sure ASUS released a patch for all A8N's to be able to run dual cores http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
PaulW	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 19:34
	If your mobo is A8N-VM or A8N-SLI Premium, then they dont support Dual Core X2 Chips (accoring to ASUS) SLI Premium supports the X2, but not officially [Edited on 02-04-2006 by PaulW]
PaulW	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 19:31
	just a normal a8n??
Jules	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 18:54
	All the text at bootup comes and goes bloody quick but I will try and look for it, and I'm running XP Pro According to my mobo manual (Asus A8N) there are no jumpers for CPU selection.
PaulW	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 18:43
	what version of XP are you running?? If its XP Home, then no-way, as it doesnt support dual core/dual cpu systems, its only a single CPU OS
Corsa Sport Gav	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 16:47
	hav u got the jumpers setup correctly on the motherboard?
50Calibre	posted on 2nd Apr 06 at 16:00
	when you first switch it on.. an you get the black screen with all the writing... does it say the processor is xp3200?
Jules	posted on 1st Apr 06 at 20:36
	quote: Originally posted by Russ when your pc posts does it say xp3200? Explain this a bit further to me (and in more lamens terms pls! lol) :lol:
Russ	posted on 1st Apr 06 at 16:59
	and there no faster, just tcan handle more applications
Russ	posted on 1st Apr 06 at 16:58
	flash your mobo bios. when your pc posts does it say xp3200?
Jules	posted on 1st Apr 06 at 16:02
	Ok, so I get a nice AMD 64 3200+ dual core (socket 939) and wang it into my pc, turn it on and if anything it seems slower than previous (had a AMD 64 2200+), so I head to the AMD site to see if there are any drivers for it, I find this page: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html and download the 8th one down (AMD Athlon™ 64 Processor Driver for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 Version (exe) 1.2.2.) and install it, and nothing has changed. In the BIOS it is on the default auto detect settings and in control panel/system it claims my CPU is a "AMD Hammer Family Processor - Unknown Model" which to me sounds like a generic setup. Any idea how I cen get my PC to recognise that it's a duel core CPU? :boggle: