Processor speed

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Carlo

ok I got an amd athlon 1800+ precessor, but my system is
saying its only running at 1500, how can increase my
processor speed to 1800?
 
The Athlon 1800+ does not actually run at that speed. That is just a
performance rating that AMD uses (some say to deceive people and it works
rather well). The actual speed your chip runs at is 1.53 GHz.
 
You got that right Alex! Their method works. I bought a 1700+, back when 1.7
GHz would have been something to be recognized. In fact, it only runs at
1.1. Needless to say, I was disappointed to find that their product numbers
have nothing to do with real speed.

JAX
 
If your 1700+ is running at 1.1 ghz, your FSB is set wrong (it is set to 100
mhz, it should be 133 mhz).
That's not AMD's fault, that's the fault of whoever put your computer
together.

The proper FSB speed should be 133 (combined with a bus multiplier of 11x)
so that the chip operates at 1.47 ghz (to give the equalivant speed of a
chip from Intel running at 1.7 Ghz).
 
Actually it does not compare the performance to an Intel chip; I used to
think this also. The AMD PR rating is the speed that an Athlon "Thunderbird"
chip would have to run at to match the performance of your Athlon XP
processor.
 
Right on the money, I reset to 133 and it shows exactly what you said.
Perhaps, once upon a time when I had a few too many beers, I was playing in
the BIOS and changed it and then forgot.

Thanks, one more time, JAX
 
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