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by **Eldre** » Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:09:33

>That's wierd, honestly. It shouldn't work, but apparently it is, I don't
>understand why. That could be the reason why its so slow...but even if you
>get a mobo that supports your chip, its still going to be slow. How often
>ago did you format? I personally decide to format about every 3 months now
>to stay at the absolute fastest speed possible.

In a mail list for one of my leagues someone else said that a chip that wasn't
running to it's full speed would be listed at the speed it *ran*. Meaning,
that if my CPU had be 'throttled' by the motherboard, it would show a lower
speed in any speed test. The speed test provided by another league member
showed the thing *is* running at 1.2g.
As far as formats - I put a totally clean drive in it over the weekend to test
with a fresh install. No difference. I couldn't imagine formatting every
three months. That would be a pain in the ass...
You actually backup, format, and reinstall that often? Yow...

But anyway, I'm still left with a mystery of why things aren't working the way
they SHOULD be. All the settings check, the CPU checks at its rated speed, but
games run a lot slower than they should. Defective video card, maybe? How
would I be able to test that without having a spare one of the same model for
comparison?

Eldred
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by **Dave Henri** » Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:14:33

Remember Eldred, AMD runs at a slower clockspeed than Intel cpu's. so
the 1800XP+ really is more like a 1.53 instead of 1.8mghz. They use the
higher number to advertise their chip compared to similar Intel chips.

by **Uwe Schürkam** » Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:04:57

You can also check the BIOS messages upon booting. For instance, if I
decided to lower FSB speed from 133 to 100 MHz (or whatever), the
Athlon XP+ 2400 in my box will happily be reported as an 1800XP+ or
something. Up the FSB speed, and it's back to 2400+.

This is also a good way of keeping a chip cool and make it consume
less power (for a router or whatever), just "underclock" it.

Cheers,

uwe

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by **Eldre** » Sun, 21 Mar 2004 02:00:33

The CPU shows on startup as an Athlon 1.2, so that's right.
Argh... I dunno anymore.

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