I have found Vista a little better in handling changes. I have changed cpu's and even motherboards with Vista without any reinstalls, but with XP have had to do reinstalls a couple of times, with hardware changes, but I think I got luck with one repair. Glad to see your new chip is working great. It still amazes me how much stuff you can do at one time with these dual and quad core cpu's compared to the old P-4 which were fast in the day.
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Intel C2D E8400 3.00/Xigmatek HDT S1283 /3Gig Ram/ATI HD2600XT 256 PCI Express /550Watt Ps/ Antec P-180B Case
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