Windows 10 Pro, number of supported CPUs

[christosviskadourakis]

Hello there,

 

I am in the process of making a new workstation. The new workstation will have 2 cpus, 8 cores each one. 32 threads in general. As I was talking with one friend of mine about this, he told me that most likely I have to buy a server version of windows. At the moment, I have Windows 10 64bit Pro (newly acquired). I have searched a bit on the internet about that and I read some controversial comments about it.

 

I am pretty sure there a lot of people here who have a workstation with 2 cpus, 16 cores and 32 threads (or more).

 

Do I actually have to buy a server version of windows or the Pro edition of 64bit will do the job (will recognize all of the cores)?

 

Thank you

Christos

[Dimitris Tolios]

Issues come up with more than 2P systems (i.e. 4P or more) requiring Windows Server OS.

 

2P systems work fine with Pro or Enterprise consumer versions of Windows 7/8/10.

Win 10 Home is still limited to 1P i believe.

Edited August 22, 2016 by dtolios

[christosviskadourakis]

Thank you Dimitri!

[numerobis]

As far as I know, regarding Win 7 and 8 you need the Pro version for 2 CPU systems. For Win 10 i can't find any definitive statement, but i would assume it is the same.

[christosviskadourakis]

So, everything will be ok, because I have the Pro version. Thank you!

[Dimitris Tolios]

I think 1P is indeed still a limitation for "Home" version.

Pro / Enterprise versions of Win 10 do support 2x physical CPUs (practically unlimited cores between the 2) and for the 1st time the "Home" version supports up to 128GB of RAM (used to be just 16GB for Win 7 Home). So I think the only thing you leave behind is remote desktop capabilities. Win 10 Pro is pushing max supported RAM to 512GB.