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Posted by Newton
So what you're saying is unless the program is optimized to run on two processors it will only use one?
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Right. Games and programs have to be built specifically for using multi-core or multi-processor functions.
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Those Xeons are from 2004 but 2x of them at 3.2ghz seems kind of ok still. I don't know if Windows treates multiple CPUs the same as cores. I think it does but I'm not 100%.
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A two processor setup is very different from two cores.
For instance, you can run a single instance of a game using both cores, but adding a second processor allows you to process data with however many cores are between both processors.