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Chris Hickman
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 Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 7:37 am Post subject: PII reg vs. Xeon |
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I'm looking at upgrading my old box a little bit and I have a PII system that I'm looking at getting the best processor that it can handle...can a board that uses a PII 266 use a PII Xeon 450? Just curious.
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pjp
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I'm fairly certain the answer is no.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2002 11:48 am Post subject: |
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And I'm 100% certain: no. 
The reason is, normal Pentiums and XEONs are using completely different slots. You can exchange (to some degree) PII-XEONs with PIII-XEONs. But your old PII-Board has no chance.
To be honest, buying a new Athlon board with processor will be not much more expensive and is surely the better alternative...
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| meyerm wrote: | | normal Pentiums and XEONs are using completely different slots. |
That's what I thought, but didn't recall the PII's very well. Didn't want to tell him no and have them work 
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Well, the other way round would have been much more a problem |
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Chris Hickman
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2002 7:32 am Post subject: Re: PII reg vs. Xeon |
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| Chris Hickman wrote: | I'm looking at upgrading my old box a little bit and I have a PII system that I'm looking at getting the best processor that it can handle...can a board that uses a PII 266 use a PII Xeon 450? Just curious.
Thanks!
Chris |
Yeah, it's going to be the same price for me to buy a Duron 1.3ghz w/mobo + 256mb cheap DDR as it was for me to get Xeon 450 + 256mb PC100 basically, so screw it |
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