New Motherboard Install
James Wilkinson
fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk
Tue Jul 4 12:22:18 UTC 2006
Don Maxwell wrote:
> 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.
http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/body_view_p4.htm has a
tick against the 506 and "Intel® EM64T", which is what Intel calls their
version of AMD-64.
It's a 64 bit chip (which will also run 32 bit OSes fine, just as an
AMD-64 chip will).
Have fun!
James.
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