Tomer Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 Hey guys, I got two computers in the house, 1 is mine, 1 is my sisters, but she only uses ICQ so doesn't care about the computer specs. My comp: Pentium3 933MhZ 256 RAM Hers: Pentium4 1.6GHz 256 RAM I was thinking maybe I can switch the proseesser between the comps so mine would be faster, she doesn't care at all, how can this be done? Is it hard? - Tomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 umm..this is not going to be possible.. the P3 993 Coppermine is based on the 370 socket type.. the P4 Willamette or the Northwood are both based on the 423/478 socket type.. Most of the time it is almost impossible to move from one generation to another on Intel products. Looks like a motherboard replacement would be needed or swap computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomer Posted April 5, 2006 Author CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 Hmmm, is there a way to only switch the harddrives than? So my harddrive would be on her computer and vise-versa? - Tomer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark_Matter Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 In most cases this will be possible, and in fact very easy to do. Swaping HD's is very common place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 a lot of it depends on the hardware.. some times it will work and some times it will not.. I have only had one successful hard drive plug and play from a different system. about 99% of the time it is going to require a reformat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 If you swap hard drive and have xp on both machines be prepared to activate windows again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jypagan Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 just swap everything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 i belive if you have more that 5 device changes windows will make you reactiveate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamaicarocks Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 If you swap..... you will have to re-install motherboard and device drivers for the computer you install the new HD's in ......both for you and your sister.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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