Interesting!

As a user, I sometimes need to change a motherboard & CPU. What should I=20
do to the OS other than install the new boards hardware support disk?


On 2/6/2012 4:49 AM, alan.b.pearce@stfc.ac.uk wrote:
>> So in the short term there would be no gain using one of these processor=
s with
>> current versions of windows and linux.
> I don't know about Linux, but Windows certainly has different modules to =
handle the different processors. You can have problems if somehow an AMD mo=
dule gets applied to an Intel processor installation.
>
> It is all hidden from the installer and user by the HAL module.
>
> But when it comes to end user applications, it is anyones guess  as to th=
e code having switchable linked modules for the processor type. I guess if =
they are wanting to squeeze the very last ounce of performance out of somet=
hing then they may do it, but I suspect for most applications they use the =
'common instruction set' in the compiler.
>
>

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