Overclocking underclocker?

Guys... listen, I'm a tad confused. Here's my situation:

I buy an AMD 2400 XP to put onto my crappy 2 year old PC Chips
motherboard. The thing reports the CPU as 2.2Ghz on both bios boot-up
and XP boot-up. The computer does a hard restart every few minutes or
so when XP was running.

I stick it into my much newer motherboard (but still crappy). It
reports it as being a 2800 XP and at 2.2Ghz. Runs fine, a bit hot but
the cooling system is hopelessly inadequate anyway.

I run Sisoft Sandra and perform a CPU Arithmetic benchmark thingy. It
just nudges past the performance it expects of a 3200. It reports the
CPU as a 2800 at 2.2ghz by the way.

The model number on the chip says AXDA2400DKT3C.

What's going on? I've not performed any overclocking procedures - at
least not to my knowledge! Please excuse my ignorance of all things
hardware and of any netiquette around these parts.


Gaz

If you are able, try to get into your bios and load setup defaults.
if it still reports a 2800+ then you coulda got lucky with a mistake
amd made. I'd then recommend a better cooling system to stop the auto
rebooting perhaps. my opinion. hope it helps.

"Gaz" wrote in message
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| Guys... listen, I'm a tad confused. Here's my situation:
|
| I buy an AMD 2400 XP to put onto my crappy 2 year old PC Chips
| motherboard. The thing reports the CPU as 2.2Ghz on both bios
boot-up
| and XP boot-up. The computer does a hard restart every few minutes
or
| so when XP was running.
|
| I stick it into my much newer motherboard (but still crappy). It
| reports it as being a 2800 XP and at 2.2Ghz. Runs fine, a bit hot
but
| the cooling system is hopelessly inadequate anyway.
|
| I run Sisoft Sandra and perform a CPU Arithmetic benchmark thingy.
It
| just nudges past the performance it expects of a 3200. It reports
the
| CPU as a 2800 at 2.2ghz by the way.
|
| The model number on the chip says AXDA2400DKT3C.
|
| What's going on? I've not performed any overclocking procedures -
at
| least not to my knowledge! Please excuse my ignorance of all
things
| hardware and of any netiquette around these parts.
|
|
| Gaz
|

Gaz wrote:
Guys... listen, I'm a tad confused. Here's my situation:

I buy an AMD 2400 XP to put onto my crappy 2 year old PC Chips
motherboard. The thing reports the CPU as 2.2Ghz on both bios boot-up
and XP boot-up. The computer does a hard restart every few minutes or
so when XP was running.

I stick it into my much newer motherboard (but still crappy). It
reports it as being a 2800 XP and at 2.2Ghz. Runs fine, a bit hot but
the cooling system is hopelessly inadequate anyway.

I run Sisoft Sandra and perform a CPU Arithmetic benchmark thingy. It
just nudges past the performance it expects of a 3200. It reports the
CPU as a 2800 at 2.2ghz by the way.

The model number on the chip says AXDA2400DKT3C.

That's a 133MHz(266DDR) T-Bred B core model XP2400+. Stock speed is 133MHz
FSB with a 15x multiplier for ~2000MHz. Review the motherboard manual for
each board and make the appropriate changes. Odd models are displayed
because it's running faster than stock and/or the BIOS version does not
"read" the ID of the new processors. This is nothing to worry about. When
you've made the changes, download CPU-Z or WCPUID to verify those changes.

www.h-oda.com

www.cpuid.com


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