amd athlon

[rx7000]

Hi everyone, a friend of mine says he has a amd athlon xp but he dosnt know what number / speed it is, I read somewhere that you have to set the speed manually in the bios because it dosnt have the bus speed detection pins. Actually heres what I read.

"Q. I just installed an XP1600+ and it shows up as an Athlon 1050MHz (or similar mismatched speed).

A. AMD processors do not have bus speed detection pins as Intel processors do, you must manually change your bus speed to 133MHz in BIOS or by jumper, see your motherboard manual for more information."

Now is there a way he can run a program or some benchmark thatll read what speed / type the processor really is? Anyway to find out??

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[Nights_L]

Download CPU-Z, WCPUID, look at the multiplier and the L2 Cache size, then it's very easy to guess whether which Athlon XP it is

 

[Ned_Flanders]

I'm taking bets on which Athlon is it :lol:


I'm guessing it's a 2100+

Let us know when you find out

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[davemar14]

What motherboard is it? You may have to do a BIOS flash for the board to reconize the processor correctly. My bet is that its a 1600+ but the bus speed (FSB) is set at 100 instead of 133.

1600+ XP = 1400 MHz =(133*10.5)
Athlon 1050 MHz (100*10.5)

Just go into BIOS and change FSB to 133 and you are good to go.