Concerning my TBird 1000Mhz

First off, just got my new system up and running, 1Ghz Athlon, Asus A7V133 (with latest BIOS update), 256MB of RAM, well my CPU temperature is at 53C with GlobalWIN FOP38. Is that good? I'm not real familiar with the temperatures the Athlon should be at, also I went into the BIOS and set the bus to 110mhz so it should be running at 1100mhz right? When I booted it said 1100mhz but how do I know for sure if it is, and that it really changed? Also I tried to adjust the CPU multiplier up to 10.5 after that, but that didn't seem to even effect ths speed presented on the bios screen when booting up, it says it's only available on 1.04 or later versions of the board, but I don't know if my board is 1.04, shouldn't it work if I updated the BIOS? Thanks for all the help.

Well that's what Asus Probe tells me, not real sure how accurate that is. And I thought I unlocked the bridges, I took a #2 pencil and connected them.

regarding cpu temps, a lot of people get good heatsinks (and they should) but they neglect to have good case airflow. think about it, the best hsf will not perform well if it it surrounded by hot air. here's an example...i have a 900mhz t-bird with a taisol 733092 (basic hsf). when i had it overclocked to 1000 at default voltage it would run at about 42/48 idle/load. i have since played around with the case to increase airflow and now i have it clocked at 1050 at 1.85 volts and with the same room temperature it now runs at 36/42 idel load. there are no other changes and all temp readings are taken with motherboard monitor 5. i was surprised but this just shows how much case airflow effects cpu temp.

you'd be better to LOWER the multiplier and run at 133 FSB or higher.

Assuming you have PC133 RAM (you didn't say) you could still run your chip at stock speed (1000Mhz) using 7.5x 133. You'd have the came core cpu power, but 33% greater memory bandwidth = faster PC. Then you can squeak your fsb up from there for even higher FSB/CPU speeds. The A7V133 is good for at least 140FSB with a lot of common setup (but you may need to up your core voltage, so watch your heat)

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You might have the version of Asus Probe that mis-reports temperature info. Check the temperature in the BIOS. If there is a huge difference, like say 10 degrees, then that's your problem.

I recommend Motherboard Monitor instead of Asus Probe. I think 5.1 is the latest but I like 4.18 because it has a cleaner interface.