There's always one who has to be different. ;)
Totally OT: Value of my PC?
Mar 19, 2005
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Cos when it comes to modern PCs, *any* future-proofing you can get, is a good thing :)
The first-round of DualCore chips are sticking with the current Socket939 format, and will work in most of today's boards. Not much point you upgrading a 3200 today though - you won't see much gain :)
Because the SMP mode is deliberately hacked out of XP Home, so you have to pay extra £££ for XP Pro.
The same applies with other parts of Windows - the Software RAID5 from 2003 Server is all present and correct in Windows XP - it's just disabled. A bit of fettling, and you can enable and use it with no problems ! (I don't think you can enable SMP in XP Home though - that was just an example)
There is *some* - and the more of it you can get, the better :)
According to Intel Windows shouldn't be able to tell a HT chip from 2 non HT chips, maybe MS pulled some strings to get a bios flag put in so that home can tell?
Dunno the technicalities I'm afraid. There is *some* kludging going on somewhere though, because when HyperThreading was first touted, XP Home was NOT going to be able to support it. But it can and does.
Because it's not DDR.
No it's not - see
formatting link
eBuyer's £20 SDRAM doesn't actually *work*.
As it turns out, his PC uses neither of the above, so he can't easily buy extra RAM anyway !
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