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> Well when I buit my Dual PII 350 awhile ago I remeber others were > to. Well, even though the board I got can support PIII 850's, I just > ordered two PII Xeon 450's with 2mb of Cache. The procs were running $119 > a piece. I just couldn't pass up the upgrade for my home system. I > figure next time I upgrade it will be to a 64 bit arch. I got them from > www.star-components.com - well anyway figured I would pass on how cheap > there selling these things for. > I I understood you correctly, you're planning to replace your PII with the XEON? I don't think that'll work. My understanding was that the Xeon processors used a different slot type and required a motherboard with 450GX or 450NX chipsets. I dug around http://tomshardware.com but could not find a specific article backing up my theory. But I did find this. http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/98q3/980702/index.html -christoph - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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