"Sean Berry" wrote in message
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Sorry if this question doesn't belong here, but I figured someone could
help.

I bought an OEM AMD Athlon XP 2400+ processor from a local computer store
yesterday.

I am going to primarily run FreeBSD on it, but tried it with XP just for
kicks. When I right clicked the "My Computer" icon and went to properties
it says under "Computer":

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
1.49 GHz
1.00 GB of RAM

So, I ran wcpuid and it came up with:
Processor: AMD Athlon XP (Model 8)
Name String: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+

What gives???
Did I get ripped off, and do I now need to set some people staight?

Any help here is greatly appreciated.



Sean

It's running at the wrong FSB frequency (100 MHz).
That CPU has a default multiplier of *15 which gives you 1500 MHz (~1.49
GHz).
In your bios you may be able to switch the FSB to 133 MHz, which will
give you 2000 MHz for the internal frequency and an AMD figure of XP 2400+.
Its probably worth running prime95 for 24 hours if you are pushing your
components
to give you confidence about reliability.
I've actually got my XP 2400+ to run at 2100 MHz through the bios (others
have
managed to get them higher).

eric
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