I just purchased a athlon xp 2200 and want to upgrade. I'm not sure how smooth this is going to go with my current install. Will I have to backup and upgrade or can I just swap processors(config bios) and reboot?

Thanks alot

By the way R5F27 seems to be the best yet, stable and gives me a great picture.

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As long as your mobo and bios can handle the faster processor, you should be able to just swap them out. I've done it a couple of times and I'm definitely NOT a technie, at least not in this crowd.

Just be careful taking the fan off the old cpu. Some have grease in between but some have a "tape" that is very sticky.

Thanks for the reply. I thought you should just be able to just swap it out.

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Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC/ClearQAM
1.5 TB
2 GB ram
ASUS M4A78 Plus AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon II X2 250 Regor 3.0GHz Socket AM3 65W Dual-Core Processor