New CPU......................advice please

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Today i threw caution to the wind and saw a great deal on an AMD XP 2400 CPU and so i purchased it. Installed it and everything goes like a rocket ship however when I booted up the BIOS gave me three CPU options - Manual, 2000 mhz and 2666 mhz. I went for the 2000 mhz option as i believe the chip is designed to run at this speed however when i boot up and look in the system device manager it shows the chip as XP 2000+ whereas it is an XP 2400. Is this right or am i missing something.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
My experience shows that in this case the Properties on your processor are actually embeded on the chip. I might be of the belief that you are running an "Athlon XP 2000+" this is the chips name. The stepping and mode are more reflective of the actual bus speed. I recommend you give SiSoft's Sandra a try. You can find a Demo on this http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/
run the cpu/bios info for greater detail.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's a 2.0G... in bios set FSB to 266 (or 133 depending on the way the mobo lists it) .. sounds like it's defaulting to 100. You'll have no problems with memory ratio as long as it's 2100 or better.



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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thanks guys i will give it a whirl. Cheers.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yrag..........you were spot on......it was set at 100 which is the old athlon/duron setting. I set it to 15 X 133 and everything went smoothly. I then read my motherboard manual (Asus A7V266-E) and it appeared as though my CPU Type Freq Setting was still at Athlon/Duron so i chopped the jumpers across to Palamino and hey presto the BIOS kicked up the XP 2400 chip next boot up.
Thanks mate, your are a star when it comes to these techy things.
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Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
As long as he helps me with my next upgrade....[in case I get a dose of brain-fade and lose the plot]....he may yet make it to Pope...
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hmmmmm...

King yrag...nope
Prince yrag....no
Queen yrag...ugh
Emperor yrag...hummm, not quite right
Pope yrag....yeah....that's it....

Let the upgrade begin.......



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Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
/me laughs @ yrag. Like Jafo, I'll keep you in mind on my next puter problem.



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Well Leo at least you did not feed the Intel machine... That's good!
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Kona, I'm an AMD man through and through.....always have been, always will.

yrag, I like Wizard yrag.....got a certain ring to it don't you think
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
hummm...might have to put that in the running...Pope yrag does sound kind of pompous ....

/me thinks he might have problems with his subjects looking that far down on them



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Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm

The Duke of yrag...Nar!!
The Right Honourable yrag....maybe!!
Lord yrag....possible!!

Leo hears China Cat coming down the hall with her suggestions and she shouts out one idea.

Leo cries out " You can't use that - this is a family site - those sort of words are not allowed".

China repeats the suggestion.

Leo breathes a sigh of relief and says " Oh you mean, Count - Thank goodness for that i thought you said ?".

Phew!!!!!! that was a close one.

Yeah i like Count Yrag.........
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Count yrag.........its got a sort of about it

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
How about 'yrag the dyslexic'....
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
...you mean 'gray the dyslexic'...
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
..well me being all-powerfull anddyslexic would certainly give Jafo job security..