Athlon 3000+ reads as a 1.4 ghz

[neatguys]

My friends Athlon 3000+ reads as a 1.4 ghz in properties.I built his rack pc for him a few weekends ago and he wanted the athlon 3000 +.
He tried the davec last night and could only get 20 tracks and it reads in properties that its a 1.4 ghz!!!
I have the 2500 + and mine reads as a 2.2 ghz.
Hes on the other side of the state so I cant look at it myself.Any ideas?.

[Carl Fuehrer]

What motherboard is it, what does he have the processor speed set to?

[neatguys]

A7v600 mother board.
He changed it to 2.27 GHz now and its working alot better.I thought the system would automatically adjust to the processor speed.

[Carl Fuehrer]

Just checked my BIOS, I have the Asus A7N8X 333FSB non-deluxe board with the latest BIOS before they went 400FSB.

Under Advanced settings:
CPU Exteernal Freq = 166
CPU Freq Multiplier = AUTO
x CPU Freq = 13.0x
x CPU Interface = Agressive

In XP under device manager it should say 2.16 GHz.

[Fame Keyz]

so let me get this straight you can change the speed of your pross. can anyone direct me how i go about doing this just to see if mines is at the best speed....im running widows xp home.

[Carl Fuehrer]

when you start the machine, hit the DELETE key to enter the BIOS and see what the CPU settings are. Also click the Start button > Settings > Control Panel > Device Manager and that will tell you what your current setting is.

PLEASE BY ALL MEANS!!!! If you have never been in the BIOS settings, don't change anything or you could mess things up.

[Bug0711]

Hey guys
I have been lurking around here for awhile.

Neatguys posted this thread for me (I was busy trying to destroy my machine)
For the record my machine is set at:
2167 MHz / 166
I tried many different settings and I finally figured out how to take it out of manual mode and selected 2167, and everything else fell into place.
It is now reading 2.17 GHz at the "My Computer" properties

I had a few scares along the way but it seems stable now.
Although I figured it out, I'd like to just say thanks to you guys just for being here.

Also a big thanks to Doomin' (Neatguy), he totally went out of his way to hook me up and you won't meet a nicer guy.

[Bug0711]

I do have a question:

I know that the settings (2167Mhz = 2.17Ghz) for my Barton 3000+ are somewhat close, if not correct... but does anyone think that I can get more out of this processor (without sacrificing stability)?

[greenroom]

I have a different board but still a Via K600 chipset. I have a Barton 2500 which in reality is a downgraded XP3200. I slung it in the board (EPOX8KRA i think) and it immediately called it an XP3200 @ 2.2Ghz. Most of these downgraded chips are downgraded because they don't post properly at so-called 'normal' voltages.

Anyway mine posts fine.

To overclock XP chips, i'd suggest raing the FSB in bios and starting with a low multiplier.

I have mine at FSB of 200 and a multiplier of x11 = 2.2Ghz. I have had the multiplier up to 13 i.e 2.6Ghz and things are fine but hot!!!

All this for a chip which cost me $90!!!

[Fame Keyz]

im back. Well to the guy that gave me directions to see my what my pross. it told me i had a amd athlon 4 pross...when i did the delete thingy when my machice started up all i got was a some rappid beeps. Are only the xp pross. able to change the speed. the directions you gave me to get to the device manager did not work...nothing in my control pannel said anything about a device manager.