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More info?)
I doubt that hyperthreading is a concern. I believe that none of the 2.4 GHz
533 MHz FSB CPUs supports hyperthreading, including the latest 90 nm
(Prescott) CPUs. (I gave a quick look at www.intel.com.)
I doubt that the original poster will have to do anything at all to XP,
unless the CPU change triggers activation. I hope that he has at least
PC2100 DDR memory (or PC133, if his mainboard is one of the old SDRAM ones).
HTH.
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"Shenan Stanley" <news_helper@hushmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dave wrote:
>> I have XP home and I want to upgrade CPU from 1.6 (400fsb)
>> to a 2.4(533fsb) do I have to re-register? XP
>
> Shenan wrote:
>> Depends..
>> Can you use the same motherboard?
>
> Dave wrote:
>> Yes same motherboard, I don`t want to do a fresh install,
>> just want to change CPU? will it work?
>
> Chances are that you will notice no difference.
> The only tricky part I see is going from non-HT to HT technology, which
> MIGHT require a repair installation.. I doubt it will require anything
> other than you putting your new processor in, however. And the Processor
> alone should not trigger reactivation, and even if it does, if it has been
> more than 120 days since you did it, you can do it over the Internet. If
> it has not, a 5-10 minute phone call will get you activated again.
>
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> <- Shenan ->
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