I am trying to build a simple PC for my wife to use at home, primarily for e-mail and web browsing. I was given a BioStar M7VIQ motherboard with an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ CPU by a co-worker. It was working when pulled from a system his family owned. I put two SimpleTech 512MB PC2100 DDR DIMMs in...

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:29:33 -0500, "Happy" wrote: In two of these CPUs, which one is more powerful than the other? The Athlon is significantly faster at (most things) and quite a bit faster at some others. A P4 1.4GHz is among the worse CPUs intel has ever released as...

Ok just a simple question: how much faster will a SINGLE core of an core i7 975 be vs an athlon XP 2600+ (2 Ghz) ? I suppose one get the core i7 with DDR3 and best mobo available for this cpu at this moment, and the athlon is with DDR , NF7 mobo. Do you guys have a precise idea? I can't find a...

What can y'all tell me about the AMD Athlon XP 3000+ CPU? It's in an ASUS motherboard. The HD in my old P2/266 MHz was failing, so I had all the data transferred to a new computer (I was due for an upgrade anyway.) Is/was the XP 3000+ a decent CPU? It is running at 2.2 GHz, 400 MHz FSB, 512M RAM,...

Hi Guys, I need this proc for a Socket A system I am upgrading to have as a Seond System. I can't seem to find it anywhere. I am in Canada, if you guys know of one in Canada or reasonablr priced in the US can you let me know? I already have a 939 system so please keep the flaming to a minimum. I...

Hi I am looking for an Athlon XP2800+ CPU to upgrade my PC: By it seems to me that they ar equite expensive now. Should Ijust ditch the old MB, and buy a new MB a a newer CPU? I mean, I can get a Intel Celeron D 345 3.06 GHz

I just bought a new computer. I ran Sandra and found out that it is running slower than I expected. Here are the results. Notice that it says the prcessor speed is 1.4 Ghz. That should be 2.17 Ghz, correct? Is the computer set up improperly? Thanks in advance for any help. SiSoftware...

Hallo zusammen, ich habe ein Problem und hoffe Ihr könnt mir helfen Ich habe von Gigabyte das GA-7VTXE+ Board, welches ich seit über einem Jahr benutze (bisher mit Duron1000). Ich habe mir jetzt einen ADM AthlonXP2000+ gekauft (0,13-technik). Laut Homepage von Gigabyte ist das mit dem Bios...

Thought they would be going way down by now. In nov the prices were getting a bit soft in some places. I saw on Ebay one place selling brand new ones in qty as low as $59 a piece buy it now . The avg seemed to be $70-90. With the word they were locked I thought for sure the prices would slip and...

Hi I have a Amd Barton 2800+ and a msi ms6380 (MSI KT3 Ultra2) motherbord and it'll just let me run at 133mhz, it will not let me run at 166mhz some how its running at 16 *133 = 2134 its running at the right speed but would like to know if any body else had the same problem setting it to the...

I was thinking of upgrading the processor in my machine, a 1Ghz Duron. But unfortunately I only have a Abit KT7A motherboard, which is only has a max bus speed of 266Mhz, so I assume a Sempron is out (probably need a BIOS update anyway, and the last BIOS update seems to have been in 2002). Just...

Is there a possibility of encountering compatibility issues by installing an NVidia-based graphics card on an AMD/ATI chipset-based motherboard? Or vice versa? Could you please categorise it by way of likely (a known issue), possible (in certain cases), unlikely or highly unlikely?

I am trying to repair a computer with an AMD 1.7GHz chip on a Elite K7VMM+ mb with a 300W PS, using a 20GB disk with Win2000. When it starts up, nothing displays on the monitor (no start up sequence). The HD, monitor and cable are fine, as I tested them on another computer. The power supply...

My Athlon cooling fan has been making a lot of noise, so I replaced it with a generic $5 fan that has only two wires- for +12 VDC and ground. The old fan had a third wire (blue) and the mobo has three-pin headers for such fans. The new fan is delightfully quiet, and the computer seems happy. I...

Can someone tell me if the BIOS will automatically detect and set the CPU speed, or if this needs to be done manually. Thanks Tom

I'm doing my rounds, updating the drivers for my hardware, and came across a CPU driver on the AMD website... AMD CPU setup v1.3.2.16. I don't see any AMD stuff under Add/Remove Programs, so I can't say if I've ever installed this software. What does it do for the user? Mainboard is a DFI...

There are three AMD A10-5800K Socket FM2 CPUs((APU) being marketed, one of which (the third, below) is said to handle Windows XP, and the others (the first and second, below) apparently will NOT The first two may in fact be the same model CPU, but I don't know. I can find no way through Google...

I have this processor amd turion 64 mobile technology ml-32 on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo A1650G laptop ACPI\AUTHENTICAMD_-_X86_FAMILY_15_MODEL_36\_0 it is supposed to be 1800 Mhz Windows XP sees it like 800 Mhz and another software(a chess computing engine) also recognizes it like 800Mhz But...

Hello, folks! I have a question for the group as I am thoroughly confused. I have an old AMD AthlonXP 2000+ (1666 MHz) that used to sit around 61°C idle. This was apparently normal for the AthlonXP. However, I went out and bought a Thermaltake Volcano 7+ for this CPU and now she is stable...

Hi I'm completly confused my all of AMD's 64 bit CPU's. They have an Ahtlon 64 coming up, there is a Opteron, (claw/sledge)Hammer, you name it. What 64 bit CPU's exactly are there, what codenames are used and how are they all different? TIA