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Do you always need to reinstall XP?

I'm not planning on doing this for months btw, as I've got GFX and memory upgrades planned, but how easy is installing a new CPU. Do you need chemicals and things or is it just a case of delicately pulling the old one out and slotting the new one in? (Like memory/GPU)?
 
wilders said:
Just remove the old one, use some paste on the cpu / heatsink, thats it.
Not sure what sort of increase you'd see as the 3500 is a capable chip already!
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Well this is what I thought, but the gurus over at the Graphics Forum say the X1900XTX I'm buying will be limited because of my CPU.

Anyway, hopefully games will start to use the dual core aspect of the X2s soon.
 
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