JSn1™ Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 I am almost sure my PC won't install any other operating system that is diferent from Windows, it WON'T install Linux, it WON'T install Mac OS X, No other operating systems. That's why I'm thinking about this deal with my brother. My Intel Pentium 4 Northwood, 2.6 GHz for his AMD Sempron 1.6 GHz, It looks that mine (p4) won't work woth osX86, and my brother just uses XP or Vista. We tested Mac on his PC (AMD Sempron) and the processor was detected as 3.4 GHz (wow) Is it a good deal? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/49795-processor-exchange-intel-p4-for-an-amd-sempron/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Why your Intel proc doesn't work? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/49795-processor-exchange-intel-p4-for-an-amd-sempron/#findComment-355981 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSn1™ Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Don't know, I have a possible theory. My motherboard is not very good, since it won't work even with Linux, when the installation is starting, the computer reboots, very strange, I don't know exactly what is happening, also I thought it was the video card, so I purchased a NVIDIA PCI card. This was the same, or even worst. So maybe, I think that the best possible option is to exchange my Microsoft'ed motherboard. But the question still remains. Intel P4 2.6 GHz AMD Semprom 1.6 GHz, detected in Mac OS X as 3.4 GHz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/49795-processor-exchange-intel-p4-for-an-amd-sempron/#findComment-355985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baliw Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 Try running Live cd select Memtest, me thinks memory is failing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/49795-processor-exchange-intel-p4-for-an-amd-sempron/#findComment-355986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSn1™ Posted April 30, 2007 Author Share Posted April 30, 2007 Sorry, forgot to say, replaced the RAM memory that the computer had for just 1 GB RAM, however, I am testing right now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/49795-processor-exchange-intel-p4-for-an-amd-sempron/#findComment-355992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shredplayer Posted April 30, 2007 Share Posted April 30, 2007 What installer are you using? i used to have a Sempron and it's SSE3 capable, use CPU-Z to verify your brother's processor capabilities, you can try SSE2/SSE3 kernel to your Northwood (might work).... by the way Sempron is a good deal than an Old P4 northwood. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/49795-processor-exchange-intel-p4-for-an-amd-sempron/#findComment-356009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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