Re: New Motherboard Install

["Don Maxwell" <don maxwell gmail com>]

On 6/30/06, John Austin <ja jaa org uk> wrote:
> I have done this very thing this week.
> New MB with the same CPU, memory and disk.
> FC5 sorted everything out on the first boot.
> I did use the same Graphics card though.
> Magic

What do you guys count as the "same CPU"?  Same physical chip or a
general equivalent?

Physically, I plan to change both the MB and the CPU chip.  However
the old chip was a P4 and the new chip is a P4.  The speed and some
other details will obviously be different.  I am choosing to go this
route instead of making the jump to a AMD 64.  I am not ready

Fry's special today is a ECS P4M800PRO-M w/Intel P4 506.  Admittedly,
this is low-end compared to what is popular now, but is more than
adequate for my needs and I think is the simplest MB/CPU upgrade path.