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CPU upgrade and the OS

lopri

lopri

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I currently have a Gigabyte 8IHXP board with P4 2.26GHz and may upgrade the CPU to 3.06GHz. Do I need to re-install the OS? Also, how does HyperThreading perform? In order to utilize HT I need to flash the BIOS so I want to know if it's worth the effort. Thanks in advance.
 
I would flash the BIOS to get HT. You shouldn't have to re-install the OS to upgrade the CPU, most of the time you have to do that when upgrading motherboards with different chipsets, but not processors (I went from a 2.6C to a 2.8C w/o problems under XP Pro). You may however have to re-install to get HT support in the OS, I ran into this problem once with a 2.6C, wouldn't see co-processors without re-installing.
 
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