[geeks] OS X on x86

[Phil Brutsche]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Why not?
> 
> PCIe on the motherboard doesn't determine what CPU the board can run.

Yes, it does.

With extremely rare exceptions (ie there is only 1 board on the market
from a manufacturer with major quality problems) P4 motherboards that
support PCIe have a 775-pin LGA (large gate array) CPU socket; 2.4GHz
P4s were never released in a LGA 775 package.

If the system in question had PCIe (and hence LGA 775) the slowest P4
you could put in it is 2.66GHz.

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Phil Brutsche
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