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FireDrow

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Ok just built a new computer two days ago. I installed everything and got it up and running. When I right-clicked on My Computer and looked at the processor speed, it said I was only running 1.1 Ghz on my AMD Athlon XP 3200+. I should be running 2.2 GHz. When I went into my BIOS, my FSB was only at 100 instead of 200 MHz. But I don't see a setting to change the FSB speed. The mobo has a Phoenix-Award BIOS. Does anyone know how to up my FSB? Would uping the clock speed accomplish this? The clock speed can be changed from 100 -> 133.

Biostar iDeq M7VBA Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
512 RAM
MSI nVidia FX5700 w/ 128 RAM
Maxtor 80 gig SATA HDD

FireDrow
 
kharmini91

kharmini91

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AMD Processors are rated in ghz on AMD's standards, not Intel's standards. I have an Athlon XP 1.6 ghz which is the equivilent speed of a 2.0 ghz Intel.
 
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FireDrow

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I realize that AMD and Intel have different standards. AMD rates its 3200+ at 2.2 GHz. It was rated against the P4s running 2.8 and 3.0 GHz.
 
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4W4K3

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kof2000 said:
maybe ur memory is pc 2700 then it wont run at 800fsb u need pc3200
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the "max" default fsb for AMD is 400fsb, not 800. but anyways...there should be a place in the BIOS where you can adjust FSB manually. if there isnt or ots greyed out then you will probably need to flash to a diff BIOS OR (if yyour mombo is really old) there might be a jumper on the mobo itself you need to switch to a diff setting to enable the BIOS to give you that option. i searched for your perticualr board and couldnt find anything...even ion the biostar website. not sure if maybe you typed it wrong?
 
Praetor

Praetor

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AMD Processors are rated in ghz on AMD's standards, not Intel's standards. I have an Athlon XP 1.6 ghz which is the equivilent speed of a 2.0 ghz Intel.
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AMD systems are rated by "Performance Rating" not gigahertz -- same as intel now (of course the two companies have arbitrary ways of coming up with numbers)

maybe ur memory is pc 2700 then it wont run at 800fsb u need pc3200
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It'll run. It might not be ideal but it will run.

the "max" default fsb for AMD is 400fsb, not 800
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Well... to be anally-retentively picky, their FSB runs at 200Mhz -- 400DDR. And even more (or is it less) with the A64s.... 1Ghz :)
 
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