mystmaiden
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I like to play around refurbishing old computers. I have a kinda cool older motherboard, Micro-Star International ms-6738 that could use a cpu upgrade but the manual has me a bit baffled. Could be I'm just not reading it correctly.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13159820/KM2M-ComboL-MS6738-Manual
It says:
CPU -
Socket A for AMD® Duron/Athlon/ XP processor.
Supports 1GHz to Athlon/ XP 2600+ processor
Its the 'to' in the second line that has me confused. Does that mean it will or will not support the xp 2600+ processor?
http://active-hardware.com/english/reviews/processor/xp2600.htm mentions that the Athlon xp 2600 runs at 2 GHz. The board has a Duron processor on it currently.
I'll run puppy linux or ubuntu on it eventually, but would also like to give it a new hard drive to replace the big 18 gb one it has now. I'm wondering just how much hard drive it would tolerate and still work reasonably well.
thanks in advance,
mystmaiden
http://www.scribd.com/doc/13159820/KM2M-ComboL-MS6738-Manual
It says:
CPU -
Socket A for AMD® Duron/Athlon/ XP processor.
Supports 1GHz to Athlon/ XP 2600+ processor
Its the 'to' in the second line that has me confused. Does that mean it will or will not support the xp 2600+ processor?
http://active-hardware.com/english/reviews/processor/xp2600.htm mentions that the Athlon xp 2600 runs at 2 GHz. The board has a Duron processor on it currently.
I'll run puppy linux or ubuntu on it eventually, but would also like to give it a new hard drive to replace the big 18 gb one it has now. I'm wondering just how much hard drive it would tolerate and still work reasonably well.
thanks in advance,
mystmaiden