How many cores will windows 7 support

Archived Forums. Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility. Sign in to vote. I have an 8 socket 32 core machine, I have installed server enterprise r2, but I wanted to know if windows 7 would also support 32 cores? Thanks, Dave Hare. Friday, March 13, AM. But, it won't support all those sockets. This is called 'licensing per socket.

Well, if one was planning on running a 4- or more processor machine, why buy a Server-level OS to run it, when a desktop-level OS can? Back to the point: While it might and, will support all of those cores , it won't support all of those socketed processors. You'll need to stick with Server for that. Posted Jul pm PrafullaVedante. Add a Solution. Top Rated Most Recent. Accept Solution Reject Solution.

Posted Jul pm Kim Togo. PrafullaVedante Jul am. I have installed Windows 7 on my machine with two quad core processors. Ideally it should show 8 processors in the task manager performance tab. But it is showing only 2.

Why is it so?? Kim Togo Jul am. How to do this? Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov Jul am. Thanks SA. In C programming, and presumably the. Net framework, process affinity is stored in an IntPtr value, and, unless I'm mistaken, that is 64 bits. Each bit represents whether or not the process is allowed to run on a certain processor. So, this would imply that the maximum supported processors of the. Net framework is Even if Windows supports processors, almost certainly there are frameworks besides.

Net that only support less. Posted Jun pm Member Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Hardware Compatibility. Sign in to vote. Will Windows 7 64Bit See this? Thanks, Daniel.