Question about vista.

Strokes

Strokes

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I have windows vista home premium and it says that it is a 32 bit OS, and my laptop has a AMD Athlon 64 x2 processor. Because vista home premium is a 32 bit OS, I was wondering if there was a program or something that I could use to utilize the Processors without switching to Vista ultimate?
 
"Utilize" as in ocing? or as in optimizing? AMD has a few of their own utilitys while board manufacturers like Asus provide their own ocing tools including options seen in the bios setup. Those are the safe bets over simply jumping on any 3rd party tool that comes along being designed by the hardware manufacturers themselves.
 
What you are looking for? Are you looking to overclock the cpu or simply find something that will optimize the performance? You mentioned utilizing the processors pointing at a dual core model cpu. That would be utilizing the cores. Some boards run two cpus to avoid confusion there.
 
Vista supports dual processors such as the X2 on it's own. 32 bit or 64 bit Vista has nothing to do with that. Same with XP and Windows 2000.

Just go ahead and install it and it will use them as necessary.
 
For performances losses seen in XP the reference at one point was to an MS page outlining a registry edit originally intended for server type boards running two cpus not one on those. That was also found to work with XP when the dual core models were first noticing similar problems. Since then AMD developed the patches seen now on their support site there.

Also when at the MS update site use the custom not express option to review software and hardware optional updates found in the left column. Sometimes you see something like this there too.
 
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