====== Requirements ====== From: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server-docs/get-started/system-requirements--and-installation Processor Processor performance depends not only on the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of processor cores and the size of the processor cache. The following are the processor requirements for this product: Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor Compatible with x64 instruction set Supports NX and DEP Supports CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW Supports Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT) Coreinfo is a tool you can use to confirm which of these capabilities you CPU has. ====== Coreinfo v3.31 ====== From: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/cc835722.aspx Coreinfo is a command-line utility that shows you the mapping between logical processors and the physical processor, NUMA node, and socket on which they reside, as well as the cache’s assigned to each logical processor. It uses the Windows’ GetLogicalProcessorInformation function