I have the opportunity of purchasing a 1.7GHz pc from work. My concern is that it has a Xeon processor.

Will this processor run any OS (W2k or XP) and be fully games compatible in the way that a PIII or P IV would be?

 

no, as the processor you speak of is actually made of mixed fruit jam..

 

This is not in muppets, you muppet.

 

of course it is. Usually find Xeon processors in servers.

Have a look here on the Intel site for more info.

Stefan

 

Same as normal Pentium chip, just with shed loads more cache. It will be better than a normal one and cost about 3 times more.

 

They don't always have more cache.

Out so called top of the range IBM servers have 4 P4 xeon processors but they onyl habe 512kb cache each... cost a damn fortune as well

 

thats because as i said, there made out of mixed fruit jam!