If I change my CPU will I have to reinstall?
I'm thinking of switching out the Celeron (@500MHz) in this PC for a VIA C3.
According to multiple sources, a 1GHz VIA (Prolly Nehemiah) is more or less on-par with my current CPU, and since the power-consumtion is VERY low, it makes it a decent proposal, if I can find the blasted C3... I wanted to know; would I have to reinstall Linux if I change my CPU? Aaand, will a CPU with a FSB higher than that of my motherboard, will it be able to scale down? Or will it burn out? (I'm not too sure what the FSB of this machine is; the manual says 66MHz, but that might be for the CPU) Cheers, Joro. |
there's no need to reinsatll at all, no... didn't think they were at all compatible though.. same socket standards?
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Yeah, looks like the C3s are all Socket 370. I'm not sure about C7s though, looks like they might have taken a new socket type, or taken another Intel from the Pentium 4 era.
But huzzah for not having to reinstall!~ Now just to find one of the buggers... |
Via C3 Cpu
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TRY tiger direct thats where I got mine for around 30.00$ , YES it is a socket 370 , I tried Suse 9.3 w/it but there is some bugginess,, Win XP pro works Great w/via CPU ,make sme wonder what is happening. Iam using a MACHspeed 694tas MOBO ,dated but OK. I thought they have a bad Floating Point issue VIA cpu,s ??? why not go w/ Celeron 900mhz ?? try Pacific Geek.com , used or new. Quote:
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