YET ANOTHER UPGRADE?(Intel Pentium Pro line of microprocessors)

This has been a pretty good year for upgrading older PCs. Back in the March 2000 issue, we covered replacing an original Pentium processor with an MMX-enabled CPU that was three or four times faster. More recently, we looked at the possibility of replacing a Pentium II or Celeron with a Pentium Ill.

This time around, we'll look at an alternative for all of those folks who believed Intel when it launched the Pentium Pro as "the next big thing" in November 1995. Actually, Intel was very hopeful about the prospects for this CPU. It contained the core of what would ...

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