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Athlon XP 3200 reading as Sempron 2200mhz with new A7N8X-E Deluxe Bios



 
 
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Old September 30th 04, 04:54 AM
Eric Feinstein
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Default Athlon XP 3200 reading as Sempron 2200mhz with new A7N8X-E Deluxe Bios

I bought an OEM 3200 and originally it was read as an Athlon XP 3200 on both
my original A7N8X Deluxe my A7N8X-E Deluxe. When I updated the A7N8X-E
Deluxe BIOS to 1012-e the processor is coming up as a Sempron 2200mhz in the
bios. I have the processor speed at 200 and the multiplier is at 11 in the
bios as it was before the BIOS upgrade. I ran Crystal CPUID and it is saying
I have an Athlon XP Barton but the name string is AMD Sempron. The mhz is
right for a 3200, the L2 cache is 512k as it should be as well. The Family
is 6 and the generation is 7 and the model is A. I don't know if I really
have a 3200XP or if I have a 2500 or even a Sempron. I just want to make
sure I didn't get ripped off by the vendor. Any help figuring this out would
be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Eric


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Old September 30th 04, 09:20 AM
Wes Newell
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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:54:46 +0000, Eric Feinstein wrote:

I bought an OEM 3200 and originally it was read as an Athlon XP 3200 on both
my original A7N8X Deluxe my A7N8X-E Deluxe. When I updated the A7N8X-E
Deluxe BIOS to 1012-e the processor is coming up as a Sempron 2200mhz in the
bios. I have the processor speed at 200 and the multiplier is at 11 in the
bios as it was before the BIOS upgrade. I ran Crystal CPUID and it is saying
I have an Athlon XP Barton but the name string is AMD Sempron. The mhz is
right for a 3200, the L2 cache is 512k as it should be as well. The Family
is 6 and the generation is 7 and the model is A. I don't know if I really
have a 3200XP or if I have a 2500 or even a Sempron. I just want to make
sure I didn't get ripped off by the vendor. Any help figuring this out would
be greatly appreciated.

Reported names are created by the bios according clock speed and L2 cache
size. Does that help? IOW's the one below is reported as an Unknown
Processor @ 2400MHz. and I know it's an Athlon XP 2100+ that's
overclocked. What the bios reports has no meaning as to performance,
actual cpu or anything else. Set a 2500+ to 11*200 and it will be reported
as a 3200+ if the bios is correct. Your new bios seems to have some
cosmtic bugs that won't affect the performance in any way.

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