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matador3   01-23-2002 at 09:34:33 AM

I recently purchased a motherboard, ECS K7S5A, that came bundled with an Athlon XP 1600. My question is about the cpu and how can I tell if it really is an XP 1600. I went into the bios under the CPU PnP setup and it lists the speed as 100/100MHz so I am a little confused about this.
This is the first computer I build and I am still learning the ropes.
Also, I ran Sisoftware Sandra 2002 and it also lists the CPU as an Athlon with speed of 1.05 GHZ. Under the CPU benchmark, my cpu does very poorly in comparison with the XP 1600 which is odd because that's what I am supposed to have.

I would really appreciate your comments as I think I was tricked by the vendor.

thank all.

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Matisaro   01-23-2002 at 09:44:42 AM
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It should say 133 to be at full clock speed, that is the fsb.

The speed and type of chip is printed in the core.

www.athlonoc.com for info on how to read the core information.

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FatBurger   01-23-2002 at 06:14:20 PM
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Go into the BIOS and set the front side bus to 133, instead of 100.

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Crashman   01-23-2002 at 11:43:31 PM
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AMD doesn't have an "automatic bus speed detect" feature like Intel, so you have to manually set your bus speed to 133 in BIOS or better yet by jumper if available.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

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lhgpoobaa   01-24-2002 at 12:04:03 AM
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yes. change your bus speed to 133,
then use wcpuid.
it will tell u u have a nice athlon :)

The lack of thermal protection on Athlon's is cunning way to stop morons from using AMD. :)

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lpenix   01-24-2002 at 12:53:00 AM
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I have the same motherboard, with a 1800+ amd, i had the same prob. I just set the fsb to 133, and it reconized my procesor. know when i start the machine, at start up it says 1800+, amd has a nifty program on their website that will tell you if the processor you have is really a amd.

I only LIE because you cant handle the truth.

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paleblueeyes   01-25-2002 at 06:54:21 PM
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i can't find that program, where is it on their site? (www.amd.com?)

...so i got that goin' for me

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khha4113   01-25-2002 at 07:49:49 PM
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<b><A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_2364~4563,00.html" target="_new"><font color=blue>AMD CPU Display Information Utility</A></b></font color=blue>

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