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I have an AMD Athlon 1700+ on an ECS K7S5A motherboard running Windows
XP Pro. The K7S5A has the SiS 735 chipset. It is maxed at 1GB of
RAM. I would like to speed this machine up without having to
re-install Windows. I am thinking about upgrading CPU or CPU and
motherboard but I'm wondering what effect it will have on my Windows
XP installation? Will my installation still run?
If I upgrade I'm planning to stay with the 32 bit AMD platform.
Probably Athlon 2800+ or higher with potentially Gigabyte motherboard.
I'm a little out of touch with current chipsets but maybe nForce2
chipset or higher.
Thanks,
Paul
I have an AMD Athlon 1700+ on an ECS K7S5A motherboard running Windows
XP Pro. The K7S5A has the SiS 735 chipset. It is maxed at 1GB of
RAM. I would like to speed this machine up without having to
re-install Windows. I am thinking about upgrading CPU or CPU and
motherboard but I'm wondering what effect it will have on my Windows
XP installation? Will my installation still run?
If I upgrade I'm planning to stay with the 32 bit AMD platform.
Probably Athlon 2800+ or higher with potentially Gigabyte motherboard.
I'm a little out of touch with current chipsets but maybe nForce2
chipset or higher.
Thanks,
Paul