New Athlon XP-M 2500+

[pdelre]

I just got an Athlon XP-M 2500+ and I'm having some difficulty with it's settings. I'm using an Asus A7N8X (r1.04 BIOS 1007) motherboard. The CPU isn't quite being detected correctly. Using CPU-Z, under Specification it says "Unknown CPU Typ". The motherboard orginally set the CPU to 100FSB x8. From what I've found, the multiplier should be set to 11, but that requires a 166FSB. The XP-M Bartons should be 133FSB though. I now have it set to 166FSB x11, which gives it the 1.833Ghz clock a 2500+ should have, but the voltage autosets to 1.6V. Again, it seems an inconsistence since the XP-M should be running at 1.45V. Does anyone have any comments or ideas about these inconsistencies? Good news is everything is running fine for now. Thanks all.

 

[scottchen]

I've heard of issues with the asus board and mobile, and i haven't found a solution myself, the correct CPU settings should be 14x133. Just try that and see if it posts, it should run at those speeds at minimum vcore allowed by board.

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[pdelre]

I think that would work, but I guess the board doesn't have a true 14x option. It lists the following:

13x
13.5x
14x
6.5x
7/15x
7.5x
...
9/17x
9.5x
10x
...
12.5x

The bios will autoselect the 14x, but the resulting speed is 800Mhz (6x133). What is with the wierd mutliplier listing?

 

[phial]

same thing happened to me

its because teh CPU isnt technically made for desktop computers. i have windows xp, and even tho its shown up as a "Unknown Cpu Typ", theres still the correct AthlonXP driver loaded

youll have to go into the bios to set it up.. but thas what Mobiles are all about !

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[Crashman]

1.60v is nice! The XP-M has a different voltage detection pin arrangement than the desktop XP, most desktop boards don't know that. And 1.60v should be able to get you a nice overclock! I'd start out at 200x11 and go up from there!

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