Building a new system that I pick up tomorrow. I ordered a 1Ghz Athalon C. When my hardware guy installed it on the mobo (IWill kk266R, FSB set to 133)it booted to 1.33 Ghz. He figures the supplier sent a 1Ghz Athalon B with a 100 Mhz FSB. The multiplier is 10. I thought these had trouble over 109 Mhz FSB. He tried a Hdd on it and played Quake lll without a hitch. Given all this, do I have an OC'd FSB or did I get a 1.33 Athalon C? How do you tell the difference? Can't remember where I saw any info on telling the difference between a B and a C
To find out if it's specced for 1.33 GHz, check the engraving on the top of the CPU core. About the second line, it should list the CPU stepping, a 4-character word beginning and ending with the letter "A". Currently, the official stepping for the 1.33 GHz Athlon is "AXIA"; anything else, and your CPU is O/C'd.
Of course, if it runs stable at 1.33 GHz, this might not be such a bad thing...I mean, it's not every day you get more than you pay for...
The big problem with setting the FSB to 109Mhz or not much more was due to the chipset, KT133, not the processor. You more than likely have a 1gig proc.
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