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Seems like in the old days (486 and such) if you swaped processors and left
everything else the same you wind up having to re-install and reconfiguer
(man, doing that stuff before PNP was loads of fun). I haven't had to face
that for quite sometime but now my wifes "new" eMachine is too slow for her
and she wants a faster processor. She now has a 2.8 GHz CeleronD with 533
FSB, on an 478 mPGA socket running @ 1.25 - 1.4 volts, with 256 L2 cache
using the 845 chip set and PC 2700 RAM. All my (quite considerable) research
at Intels' site says that the 2.4A P4 with the same FSB, voltage, and and
mPGA 478 socket should wok with this MOBO. So, questions to the Gurus;
1) Would I have to flash the BIOS? Intel doesn't say (of course) and
eMachines won't answer the question.
2)Intel says that the Hyperthreading won't work for this chip set with
anythhing less than a 3.06 GHz porcessor, but eMachines says that it will!
(Ain't this fun?)
3) Any idea if the OEM Windows will take a hit from doing this? And if so,
would I be able to recover with Restore or Rapir (I've read a bunch a posts
in here and can't see if that is a problem or not, opinons seem mixed)
Anybody ever do anyything like this? Thanks for your time.
Magicky
everything else the same you wind up having to re-install and reconfiguer
(man, doing that stuff before PNP was loads of fun). I haven't had to face
that for quite sometime but now my wifes "new" eMachine is too slow for her
and she wants a faster processor. She now has a 2.8 GHz CeleronD with 533
FSB, on an 478 mPGA socket running @ 1.25 - 1.4 volts, with 256 L2 cache
using the 845 chip set and PC 2700 RAM. All my (quite considerable) research
at Intels' site says that the 2.4A P4 with the same FSB, voltage, and and
mPGA 478 socket should wok with this MOBO. So, questions to the Gurus;
1) Would I have to flash the BIOS? Intel doesn't say (of course) and
eMachines won't answer the question.
2)Intel says that the Hyperthreading won't work for this chip set with
anythhing less than a 3.06 GHz porcessor, but eMachines says that it will!
(Ain't this fun?)
3) Any idea if the OEM Windows will take a hit from doing this? And if so,
would I be able to recover with Restore or Rapir (I've read a bunch a posts
in here and can't see if that is a problem or not, opinons seem mixed)
Anybody ever do anyything like this? Thanks for your time.
Magicky