utomo Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 I read at local website (indonesian) that Windows Xp have limit at 6.6 Ghz processor speed. can somebody clarify this true or not ? and why Microsoft give this limit ? and for Vista do they will add some hidden limit like this again ? I think it is not a good idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Not sure if they have a processor limit, but they sure do have a memory limit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circaflex Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Yea there's a memory limit of 4gb for xp pro, if you got more u'll need xp 64-bit it has a 16gb limit. Processor limit, hmmm never read that in my mcse study material, but I'm sure there's one thats hidden. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicedreams Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 If it is in there, it's because they don't want people to use XP in a few years when we get to those speeds. I doubt it though, but you never know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B4L1STA Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 It's not like it won't work with faster processors, what the site could have meant is that maybe XP fails to perform any better at a certain point because it's just not means for speeds like that. I don't think it's an actual limit Microsoft has implimented in the OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted August 15, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 15, 2005 There's no limit on how fast the CPU can be, and if there is, there are technical reasons for it. The only reason XP supports a maximum of 4 GB of RAM is because a 32-bit OS cannot address more than 4 GB of RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megamanXplosion Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Windows XP does not have a built-in speed limit for CPUs. I'd say that you are reading about someone overclocking their CPU too far (making it perform fast but unreliably) and they couldn't boot Windows. If you were to get ahold of a true 6.6ghz, that was not overclocked but designed to be that fast (reliability), then Windows would boot up properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ev0| Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 I don't think 6.6 Ghz has ever been achieved by any CPU. So this is just BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 I don't think 6.6 Ghz has ever been achieved by any CPU. So this is just BS. 586381228[/snapback] yes there was, it was the other day Japanese overclocks Pentium 4 670 to 7 Ghz https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...=358796&hl=7ghz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 There's no limit on how fast the CPU can be, and if there is, there are technical reasons for it. The only reason XP supports a maximum of 4 GB of RAM is because a 32-bit OS cannot address more than 4 GB of RAM. 586378763[/snapback] Yeah. ((2^32)/1024)/1024 = 4096 MB = 4 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ev0| Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 yes there was, it was the other dayJapanese overclocks Pentium 4 670 to 7 Ghz https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...=358796&hl=7ghz 586381244[/snapback] Wow, I stand corrected. Well that proves the point tho, that windows will run at 7 Ghz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cropcircles Posted August 15, 2005 Share Posted August 15, 2005 Yea there's a memory limit of 4gb for xp pro, if you got more u'll need xp 64-bit it has a 16gb limit.Processor limit, hmmm never read that in my mcse study material, but I'm sure there's one thats hidden. 586378702[/snapback] 16 on the 64bits. WOW! Thats smoken! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicedreams Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 There isn't a memory limit in XP. There is a 4GB limit so you have to buy the data center version that does like 32gb or 64gb more than likely. There are and have always been processors that are higher than 10GHz. MIPS and ALPHA's have broken that a while back for data servers. I'm not talking about with clustering either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chronopoulos Posted August 18, 2005 Share Posted August 18, 2005 There are and have always been processors that are higher than 10GHz. MIPS and ALPHA's have broken that a while back for data servers. I'm not talking about with clustering either. 586393169[/snapback] *drools* where can i get a hold of one of those suckers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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