What is a locked rate processor

[croco]

Hi,

I have a P4 2.4C on a 800MHz FSB P4C800 board with DDR 400 MHz memory. In the BIOS I see the frequence 2400, external frequency 200MHz and multiplication rate is 12. It says the rate is locked. What does that mean? Is that external frequency the FSB that was supposed to be 800??!!

How can I tell if my processor runs at 800Mhz FSB?

Thank you

 

[YYZ_Slayer]

Your FSB is running at 200 mhz but Intel uses Qaud Data Rate technology to boost this to 800 mhz. As for the locked rate, this is the multiplyer, all Intel chips have there multiplyer locked, this is just the way it is.

If you havent smoked up at least one component of your system, you havent pushed hard enough!!!

 

[croco]

Thank you for the answer. Now it makes sense.

Do you know of any settings that will bust the math processor performance: I get only 188 MegaFlops as opposed to my old PIII 1GhZ that gets 245?

Thank you

 

[Crashman]

Get a new benchmark program maybe?

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