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. -- E-mail address: james | "WARNING: This joke contains profanity which some may @westexe.demon.co.uk | find offensive. For that reason you are advised not to | read it before the 9 p.m. watershed." | -- "Bystander", London magistrate
