Hey guys, My dad bought this new computer that is Windows Media Center and it has all that fancy stuff, including the tv signal receiver that you could watch tv on your PC. So, I have decided to get that card and put it on my regular XP pro, but now I was wondering if I should swap the processors out too? His is AMD 3500 and mine is AMD3200... do you guys think that it is a good idea, will I see any performance boost? If not I don't want to go through all that headache... And please tell me that it is immoral, because I don't care.... Thanks... Killer Lider

Before you begin the swapping on the CPU, you need to find out what CPU socket both has... If your CPU is an Athlon XP 3200+ socket A and your dad owns an Athlon 64 3500+ socket 754, then you can't physically swap the processors. But if both is socket754 then is fine... Also your AMD 3200 could also be socket 939 and your dad has socket 754, so I would find that out before doing the swapping. As far as performance goes, I don't think you will even see any noticable gains unless you are benchmarking.... TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE P4 506 @ 4100Mhz 1.525v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 2000RPM FAN + AS5 1GB Corsair 2-3-3-5 DDR400 40GB 5400RPM/120GB 7200RPM HD Radoen 9500 mod 9700 @ 375/600 CHS+RHS

swaping out your dads processor without him knowing about it? That's not only immoral, but that's asking for a butt kicking by your dad. I know I would if my son did that to me. AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ OC 2.7ghz 2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200 Nvidia 7800GT SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0 Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

Nothing like voiding the warranty on a brand new PC. Judging from your past posts, you're bound to screw something up...leave it be! If you want 3500+ speed, just overclock your 3200+ by 200MHz & you'll have a 3500+...& if you wanna watch TV, grab a seat on the couch. Leave dad's new PC alone!

Manufacturer/Model: eMachines Problem with his PC is he owns an Emachine, which is not overclockable.... TMP-Man Asus P5P800-SE P4 506 @ 4100Mhz 1.525v Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 2000RPM FAN + AS5 1GB Corsair 2-3-3-5 DDR400 40GB 5400RPM/120GB 7200RPM HD Radoen 9500 mod 9700 @ 375/600 CHS+RHS