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| 380183 | 2005-08-10 22:46:00 | Hi I have just put An AMD Athlon 2600+ In my PC, but everything shows it as an Duron?? and system doesn't seem any faster (was using Athlon 2000+) and benchmarks slower using 3Dmarks 03, and Aquamarks, (this could be bottle neck at graphics card, ATI 9800 pro) Any help or idea's would be great, as I just brought this cpu of Trade Me and I don't won't to jump to any wrong ideas and place bad feed back. Asus A7V333 m/board Win XP Pro 512 DDR ram @266 FSB Cheers Marty |
The Resinmaster (7327) | ||
| 380184 | 2005-08-10 22:54:00 | Did you adjust the FSB of your mobo? | Rob99 (151) | ||
| 380185 | 2005-08-10 23:13:00 | Your AMD Athlon 2600+ should be running at 2.13 Ghz. What speed is it running at? |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 380186 | 2005-08-10 23:46:00 | To eliminate any possibilites that your motherboard is misrepresenting the CPU, take off your heatsink/fan. Clean up the CPU face and get the part number off the CPU. Type it into the box here (www.cpu-world.com) and it will tell you what you have actually got. | pheonix (36) | ||
| 380187 | 2005-08-10 23:54:00 | Bah. As advised,set your FSB to match the cpu,the duron runs an 100mhz,an Athlon runs at 133 or 166. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 380188 | 2005-08-11 00:16:00 | Bah. As advised,set your FSB to match the cpu,the duron runs an 100mhz,an Athlon runs at 133 or 166. I Agree, the Athlon XP 2600+ is a barton core 166FSB CPU. I would think you have not changed your front side bus. Please note some older motherboards do not support 166FSB, so this may be an issue. I personally would have not bothered with this upgrade, you would have been far better off going AMD 64, as the low end models are near the same price, however a new Motherboard would have been required. The performance difference however is huge especially in games. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 380189 | 2005-08-11 04:37:00 | Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but he has stated in his post that he had a XP2000+ previously and replaced it with the XP2600+..where does the 100MHz bus come into it?At the least, both are 266MHz FSB (set to 133Mhz). Maybe if it is a Barton version, it's clock frequency runs slower, but the FSB has to be changed to 333MHz ( set to 166MHz) Also, not all XP2600+ were Bartons.. as explained here (www.xbitlabs.com) The other way of telling is a small program from AMD that will give you the info, available for download here (www.majorgeeks.com) To be exactly 100% sure, you still require the AMD number off the top of the CPU. |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 380190 | 2005-08-11 10:25:00 | Hi there thanks for all the replies, it is starting to sound like this cpu is a dud, it runs at 133 FSB and the cpu runs at 2.13 all sounds ok looking at that, and the numbers on the chip say it is an athlon L1, L2 cache run at 64 Kbytes which is not right for athlon, Every program I have run to check cpu (AMD CPUinfo, My PC systems info, CPU-Z and wcpuid) say duron. I set all jumpers manually and let bios take control, whit same results Faulty CPU :( I think, or some wrong with motherboard. Cheers Marty |
The Resinmaster (7327) | ||
| 380191 | 2005-08-11 23:43:00 | Hello Marty, To get your system displaying the right information about your CPU you will need to perform a Motherboard bios flash update You can get the latest Bios for your motherboard from here (support.asus.com) Apart from having the correct information displayed, there is no real need to update as the system is running at the right speed for the CPU. Regards AC |
Alan Cotrell (6634) | ||
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