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wspanic   07-31-2003 at 05:24:40 AM

I just put a machine together today with an ECS K7S5A PRO motherboard and an AMD Athlon 1800. But when I look under System Properties, it is reading that I have a AMD Athlon Processor 1.15 GHz. Why is it reading this so low?

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Starion15   07-31-2003 at 05:29:05 AM
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Go into your bios and make sure that the fsb is set to 133mhz instead of 100. That would be my first check.

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wspanic   07-31-2003 at 05:43:48 AM
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Thanks, I tried that and it went up to 1.53. Should I try bumping it up from 133 to 166? Also, what should my DRAM frequency by set at? Same as CPU?

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Crashman   07-31-2003 at 05:46:59 AM
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He's right, your CPU is supposed to run at 11.5x133.3MHz. That's 1533MHz, which is the speed for the 1800+. Right now, you're running at 11.5x100MHz, which is 1150MHz. Change the bus speed in BIOS from 100 to 133.

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endyen   07-31-2003 at 05:53:44 AM
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Set your ram to 133. This is in sync with your fsb speed, and with the sis chipset you will get best performance that way.

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