How to determine Processor FSB Speed?

[Guest]

Is there an easy way to tell my processor FSB. I bought an athlon 1.33 GHz 266FSB Socket A Processor. I wanted to make sure that it truely is a 266FSB, and I didn't see it noted anywhere on the chip. I have an older version of SiSoft Sandra and I didn't see it in there.

Is there a sure fire way to tell that my processor is truely 266FSB?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

press "Delete" at upstart and you will go to the bios.
There you can find the informatin.
all athlon 1.333 Ghz are 266 fsb.

 

[Crashman]

The multiplier should be 10x. The speed should be 1333. Most motherboards cannot detect which bus speed it is, for 133 bus they need to be set manually 133 is 266 DDR, so you don't actually se a 266 setting in BIOS.

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[Matisaro]

The chip stepping code on the die will say "c" type athlon, somewhere in the lines(i forgot exactly where anyone know?) I think he wants to know if he really has a c type athlon, because a b type will post a 1.33 if you set the mobo's fsb to 133.(any b type 1.3 tbird which wont post at 1.33(266fsb) needs to be shot.)

~Matisaro~
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[FatBurger]

Yeah, look on the top of the chip, and at the end of the top line will be either a 'b' or a 'c'. B=100/200; C=133/266.

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