Author: Peter Stayne
Date: 23:17:33 05/10/03
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depends heavily on your motherboard. best place to find that info is in the BIOS revision history on your motherboard manufacturer's website. The latest updates usually say 'support for...' and list the latest procs that it supports. if it can support it, than the answer is yes, unless the new proc runs off of a different fsb speed, in which case you need to buy new memory. 2 cases i've had of this: my old A7v133 was bought before the XP's came out, and apparently, Asus released a different version of the same board in the same packaging that was slightly different in order to support the XP's. In the case of the FSB stuff, I have a duron 1.3 system. Durons only run at 100MHz FSB speed so I bought all SDRAM PC100 memory for it. The motherboard supports 66/100/133 FSB's, but my ram doesn't, so if I were to buy a 133MHz FSB proc, I'd have to get all new memory for it as the PC100 stuff would probably melt at those speeds :). On May 11, 2003 at 00:52:19, Lyn Harper wrote: >On May 10, 2003 at 23:29:51, margolies,marc wrote: > >>this costs about $150 more than the xp3000+ and I only know of one Abit >>motherboard that is supposed to handle them. quite a bite for 10% more speed. >>-marc > On the subject of faster chips, I've got an Athlon 2400+. Can I simply buy a >faster chip, eg, a 3000, and pull the old one out and drop the new one in?
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