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More info?)
You're right, i read the cpu info wrong. It's 1.65v.
As for PowerNow, I don't think my system supports it. I'm not entirely sure
though. How do I verify this? If I don't have PowerNow, then I'm stuck
with what I have?
By the way here is info from crystalCPUID:
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CrystalCPUID 2.0.11.20 (C) 2002-2003 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World [http://crystalmark.info/]
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OS : Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
Date : 2004/09/23 16:10:06
CPU Name : AMD Athlon XP (Thoroughbred)
Vendor String : AuthenticAMD
Name String : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+
Process Rule : 0.13 um
Platform : Socket A
CPU Type : Original OEM processor
Number(Logical) : 1
Family : 6
Generation : 7
Model : 8
Stepping : 0
Feature : MMX SSE MMX+ 3DNow! 3DNow!+
Current Original
Clock : 1862.47 MHz 1666.67 MHz
System Clock : 149.00 MHz 133.33 MHz
System Bus : 298.00 MHz 266.67 MHz
Multiplier : 12.50 12.50
Data Rate : DDR
Over Clock : 11.75 %
L1 I-Cache : 64 KB
L1 D-Cache : 64 KB
L2 Cache : 256 KB [Full:1862.47 MHz]
CPUID : EAX EBX ECX EDX
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00000000 : 00000001 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
00000001 : 00000680 00000000 00000000 0383F9FF
80000000 : 80000008 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
80000001 : 00000780 00000000 00000000 C1C3F9FF
80000002 : 20444D41 6C687441 74286E6F 5820296D
80000003 : 30322050 002B3030 00000000 00000000
80000004 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000005 : 0408FF08 FF20FF10 40020140 40020140
80000006 : 00000000 41004100 01008140 00000000
80000007 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001
80000008 : 00002022 00000000 00000000 00000000
MSR : EAX1 EDX1 EAX2 EDX2
: 03031008 00000000 00000000 00000000
QPF : 3.579545 MHz
Thanks
Btw, maybe you should change your ISP!
"Michael Brown" <see@signature.below> wrote in message
news:vBt4d.5620$JQ4.490342@news.xtra.co.nz...
> tomW wrote:
>> Thanks for the response. I'm assuming I need to do something like
>> this?
>>
http://www.upgrade123.com/html/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=30
>> (you need to highlight the text; select all)
>>
>> This looks challenging, but I'll give it a go if it means I can get
>> higher gHz.
>
> It's probably going to be a fair bit easier that what that page says (see
> below).
>
>> By the way, this is the info on the cpu:
>> AXDA2000DXV3C 4157203972343
>> KIUHB0342MPM
>> 1999 AMD
>
> OK, so it loks pretty much just like a stock Athlon XP 2000+ (TBred B).
> It'll probably be good to 2GHz at stock, 2.2GHz or so if you nudge the
> vcore
> up a bit. However, there are two unusual things in these lines:
> 1) First line: You sure it's not AXDA2000D***K***V3C? An X indicates 1.25V
> (as opposed to the standard 1.65 specified by the K).
> 2) Second line: You've got one of the fairly uncommon chips without a W at
> the end

>
> Also, it's a week 42 2003 chip, so it is almost certainly locked. This
> means
> that you cannot change the multiplier through any of the "normal" means
> (bridge modifications, painting pins, etc). What you'll have to do is
> mobilise the chip (fill in the 3rd L5), enable PowerNow multipliers above
> 11x (fill in the 2nd L5), then change the multiplier in your OS of choice
> using one of the many tools out there (CPUMSR, CrystalCPUID, etc etc).
> You'll also have to make sure that your BIOS won't kick the CPU up to the
> maximum PowerNow multiplier. I can easily check that, but I can't do it
> until my ISP gets its DNS issues sorted out (see my rant below). If you
> don't want to do this, then you're stuck at the default multiplier, so
> you're not going to get the chip much further than you already have.
>
> Which brings me to rant a little about my ISP (you can stop reading now
>

)
> ... Xtra/Telecom has a great little page where they can show you if
> there's
> any problems at the moment. This is all great, as long as they would
> actually USE the thing. I can recall at least 10 times where I've had an
> issue with my connection, checked the page and seen "no issues", called
> them
> up and got someone who was adament there was no issues, and then over the
> phone step them through exactly how to reproduce the problem. And I'm not
> talking "little" problems either. I'm talking things like their DNS server
> (which seems terribly flaky) returning completely wrong or corrupted data
> on
> about 50% of the queries. Heck, one time they lost a decent chunk (can't
> remember the exact size and can't google it at the moment) of their
> network
> because several switches fell over, and the first many people heard of any
> sort of aknowledgement of a problem was in an article in the newspaper the
> next day.
>
> After I demonstrate it, they say something along the lines of "Oh dear,
> we'll look into it right away". Two hours later, the problem still won't
> be
> fixed, and there will still be no message saying that there's a network
> problem. Ah well, I guess that's what you get when you've got a
> monopolistic
> telco that doesn't give a damn about it's customers because they've got
> nowhere else to go :|
>
> [...]
>
> --
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