Quote from: knightmb on July 26, 2010, 03:33:34 PM
They do physically, but if you use a virtual machine, you can set environments to have 3 for example. Windows will work with 3 cores or 4 cores just fine, it doesn’t care how many it has.
VMware only permits even numbers of processors/cores although I believe you can expose 8 cores and then configure the OS to only see 7.
if he really does have this setup, I’m going to bet that he’s opted for more processors/cores than his CPU actually has (yep, you can do this but it will have a pretty negative effect on performance)