Is this normal?

[Atog006]

I recently purchased a AMD XP 2500+ and a Shuttle Nforce2 Motherboard form Newegg. Unfortunately, 2 days after they were received, the processor fried. Before this happened, I saw something unusual. My clockspeed was being reported at 1.1ghz! Is there a relation between the two problems?

 

[endyen]

Nope. 1.1 gigs is what you get when you run the xp2500+ on a 100mhz FSB. If anything, that should keep your chip from frying.

 

[Crashman]

The only relationship between those problems is that both were caused by an inexperienced builder.

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[Ned_Flanders]

harsh words!

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[SoDNighthawk]

but true

Barton 3200+ 400MHz
A7N8X Deluxe
Air Cooled 45C
2x512 Corsair DDR 400 PC3200
GeForce FX5900
Two Maxtor 40Gig 8MB cach 7200rpm
SONY RW 52x/24x/52x
SONY DVD 16x/40x

 

[Mr_Nuke]

Stupid, but worth to ask: Was there any thermal pad on the HSF or did you apply any thermal paste? I know thse CPU's have thermal protection, but a long term exposure cannot be handeled by it.
P.S. Did you set the correct FSB on the mobo(w/ a jumper that should be done.)

 

[Cybercraig]

The stock heatsink has a pad on it. By the way, what a CHEAP POS! My god, you have to take a good hard look or it would be possible to put it on wrong which may be what he did. It slowed down right before it died! :frown:

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