Dual core on non dual core

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eddiehowell

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Dear All

I have an AMD Athlon 64 x 2, 4400, socket 939. Many users have reported using this CPU with the Asus A8V Deluxe mobo, which claims to not support dual-cores. Is this true, or can the board still run the dual core's at full speed?

Cheers
Eddie
 
Right from Asus,

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Supports AMD Socket 939 Athlon 64FX/Athlon 64 X2/Athlon 64
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This motherboard supports AMD 939-pin Athlon 64 FX/ Athlon 64 processors with 1MB/512KB L2 cache which is based on 64-bit architecture. It features 2000/1600 MT/s HyperTransport Bus, dual-channel un-buffered DDR400 memory support and AMD Cool 'n' Quiet! Technology

http://usa.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=68&model=478&modelmenu=1

The fsb can be adjusted in 200-300nhz increments for OCing. But you still have to find the highest point where the board remains stable. Sometimes to see the fastest cpu speed requires lowering the fsb.
 
A simple way to tell is open up task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del), click on the performance tab, and if there are two boxes for CPU usage, then both cores are enabled.
 
[-0MEGA-];428559 said:
She was referring to what PC Eye said. It's the bus thats usually around 200, if the FSB was 200, then it would incredibly slow.
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not only that... its written nHz instead of MHz :P. and a speed of 200 nano-Herz isnt particulairy fast :)


anyhow,. what Omega said would be indeed the easyest way to see if the 2nd core is running too.
you might also want to chenk on the Asus site for bios upgrades. i have an early s939 board here, and was running the r1.01 bios, but at r1.08 they added the support for dual cores, so,.. im pretty sure if your board doesnt support it yet, you can get a bios upgrade so it would :)
 
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[-0MEGA-];428559 said:
She was referring to what PC Eye said. It's the bus thats usually around 200, if the FSB was 200, then it would incredibly slow.
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Actually it's the other way around, but it doesn't really matter because that has nothing to do with what we're talking about (once again, PC eye...).
 
Ya the front side bus or HTT for AMD is stock around 200 for p4, and athlon 64s, its different for like core 2, and then they have a mutliplier to get the correct bus speed which normally is around 800 to 1000.

I would go on but this is way off topic.
 
Archangel said:
not only that... its written nHz instead of MHz :P. and a speed of 200 nano-Herz isnt particulairy fast :)
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Picking on my typo error there now? I guess I will have to put a "T" there the next time for "terahertz"............zzzzzzzzzzing! warp speed scotty! :P
 
PC eye said:
Picking on my typo error there now? I guess I will have to put a "T" there the next time for "terahertz"............zzzzzzzzzzing! warp speed scotty! :P
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Lol when nano hertz to mega herts is a pretty big difference. Especially since 1 mhz = 1 x 10^15 nano hertz. But n and m are close together on the keyboard. We forgive you. :D
 
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