Support for more than 4 CPU cores under Windows?

[coolproggy]

Hello,

I downloaded the trial version of dbpoweramp music converter and have found it to be full-featured and dependable.

I initially tried it on my quad-core box and saw that it used all four cores, one core per song. Excellent! I was so pleased. Before purchasing the full license I wanted to make sure it would work well on my "big box."

I decided to do the big test and loaded the program onto my server (dual, quad-core 2.3GHz Xeons, 8GB RAM, W2K3 64-bit) hoping that it would use all 8 CPUs but it seems that it does not. All 8 cores show "busy" in Task Manager but the Music Converter box only shows 4 songs being encoded, not 8.

Are more than 4 cores supported under Windows? If so, how do I enable it?

Thank you.

[LtData]

Re: Support for more than 4 CPU cores under Windows?

No, only 4 cores are supported. After 4 cores, the hard drive is the bottleneck normally, so it only does up to 4 cores.

[coolproggy]

Re: Support for more than 4 CPU cores under Windows?

Thanks for the quick reply.