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Article #281901Re: cpu question
From: Margolis
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:01
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:01
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"sticks" <sticks@nospam.com> wrote in message news:40D65D5F.8020101@nospam.com... > I purchased a new cpu (pentium4 2.8 ghz) > but I made the stupid mistake of not > noticing that it was a p4 "prescott" cpu > when my motherboard only accepts a P4 > "northwood" cpu. Before I noticed this > I put the cpu in the board and of course > it did not work. Is this cpu now damaged > beyond usefulness? > It is probably ok, but it is hard to say. The only real difference is that the prescott runs on .2v less than the northwood, no biggy. What type of motherboard do you have? Most motherboards that support 800mhz fsb p4's support prescotts also. -- Margolis http://web.archive.org/web/20030215212142/http://www.agqx.org/faqs/AGQ2FAQ.htm http://www.unrealtower.org/faq
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!internal1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newshosting.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Margolis" <someone@somewhere.org> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2 Subject: Re: cpu question Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 07:01:36 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <10ddjm1b1tgv921@corp.supernews.com> References: <40D65D5F.8020101@nospam.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit