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Anthropy wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:00:20 GMT, Rob Stow <rob.stow.nospam@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
>
>
>>Anthropy wrote:
>>
>>>>"Anthropy" <blah@bogus.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:eeqh11939iov02efm954gm2ovou0iubmbl@4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>I know I should have included the FSB speed but I'm not which Athlon
>>>>>XP 2600+ I have. I do not have the box or contact with the vendor. Is
>>>>>there a way to determine what the FSB speed is without taking the CPU
>>>>>out?
>>>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Blaedmon" <ass@beamer.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>download CPU-Z
>>>
>>>
>>>I did. Here are the results but I suspect the clock speeds shown are
>>>an indication of the current settings not the potential of the CPU
>>>generally.
>>>
>>>
>>>AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred.
>>>
>>>
>>>Voltage - 1.632
>>>Family - 6
>>>Model - 8
>>>Stepping - 1
>>>Ext Family - 7
>>>Ext Model - 8
>>>Revision - B0
>>>
>>>Clocks.
>>>
>>>Core Speed - 1662.8 MHz
>>>Multiplier - x 12.5
>>>FSB - 133.0 MHz
>>>Bus Speed - 266 MHz
>>>
>>>Cache
>>>
>>>L1 data - 64 KBytes
>>>L2 code - 64 KBytes
>>>L2 - 256 KBytes
>>>
>>>If any clever person can tell what my CPU is from these figures
>>
>>What is not clear to you from the above ?
>
>
> Hi, thanks for the help.
> Whether the CPU is an AMD XP 2600+ running at 133MHz or 166 Mhz FSB.
> I think the results above are merely a reading of the current settings
> in the BIOS not the statistics of the CPU.
> Apparently there were 2 versions of the XP 2600+ released. (133 and
> 166) I need to know which I have before I buy a new motherboard.
> Thanks
>
Every motherboard that can handle a 166 MHz FSB can also handle
133 and 100 MHz. Similarly, all of the 200 MHz boards can handle
166, 133, and 100 MHz.
Just play it safe and get a board that does at *least* 166 MHz.
It will probably be advertised as a 333 MHz board (333 = 166 *2).
For example, any nForce2 motherboard will do you nicely.
>>>or why
>>>my PC crashes whenever I increase the FSB from 133 Mhz to 166 Mhz I
>>>would be very grateful.
>>
>>Its probably simply because it is too much of an overclock when
>>you jump up the FSB by that much without also stepping down the
>>multiplier.
>
>
>
>>If you want a 166 MHz FSB, try an initial multiplier of 10, then
>>increase it by half steps until you encounter instabilities -
>>then go back to the last stable multiplier.
>>
>>There is also an excellent chance that better cooling will be
>>needed if you want to overclock.
>>
>>
>>>My OS, Win XP Pro SP2, 500mb ddr 400, Geforce 440.
>>>Thanks for any help
>
>
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