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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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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. -- Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB) http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm |
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