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oobootsy1
08-11-2004, 03:17 PM
Whenever I have seemed to buy a AMD CPU, be it my first XP 1800+ or my now current, XP 2400+, they both say whenever I boot up on the first black screen that it is a lower speed than what the CPU really is. The 2400+ would say it was a 1800+, and I forgot what the real 1800+ said it was. Anyways, I just changed a lil bit in the BIOS and OC'ed it so it said it was a 2400+. Is this what you have to do every time I get a AMD CPU, go into the BIOS and mess with the sensitive controls on it? What if someone not that smart on computers buys a 2400+, and doesn't know about having to go into the BIOS and change its speed. There getting ripped off of there money. Is what I did to make the 2400+ think its a 2400+ a legitmate way, or is there something different that we should do?
Bigjakkstaffa
08-11-2004, 04:11 PM
No, its not AMD, its your motherboard defaulting to a lower FSB than the CPU runs at (for example, the motherboars is setting the XP2400+ to run at 100Mhz, when in fact it runs at 133Mhz), usually updating the motherboard BIOS to a newer version recitifies this

--Jakk:t
oobootsy1
08-11-2004, 05:14 PM
ok kewl. thx alot
oobootsy1
08-12-2004, 12:13 PM
i have mine running at 148FSB and 13.5 CPU Ratio, and I get 2.22ghz out of it. What do most people get from a 2400+? I am talking GHZ wise.
Bigjakkstaffa
08-12-2004, 12:28 PM
2.2-2.4Ghz on air, in excess of that on water-cooling etc.

--Jakk:t
oobootsy1
08-12-2004, 02:17 PM
ok thx also, is a score of 9038 on 3dMark03 good for this system:

Athlon XP 2400+ @ 2.22ghz
GeForce 6800 128mb ddr
512MB DDR400
Soundblaster PCI 512 (****)
Windows XP Pro
oobootsy1
08-13-2004, 03:21 AM
is it?
stix_kua
08-13-2004, 11:39 AM
I'd say so...
oobootsy1
08-13-2004, 06:57 PM
k thx
froggg1truebloo
08-18-2004, 10:13 AM
before I updated the bios (which is a good thing) check the motherboard...sometimes there is a JUMPER that has to be set to the correct front side bus...I;ll bet yours is a slightly older board where 133 fsb was just "comming out" and the jumper is set to 100 mhz by default.
Its easy to find on most motherboards because the settings are silked onto the board
oobootsy1
08-18-2004, 11:44 AM
is a nForce2 that really old?
Bigjakkstaffa
08-18-2004, 12:34 PM
No

--Jakk:t