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Amd Athlon

I bought a 2.5 ghz processor, however is system information it tells me its only 1.09 ghz. I have looked on the processor and it says 2.5ghz so what is wrong?
Im running xp pro if thats any help.
Thanx
Adi

I bought a 2.5 ghz processor, however is system information it tells me its only 1.09 ghz. I have looked on the processor and it says 2.5ghz so what is wrong?
Im running xp pro if thats any help.
Thanx
Adi

Is it 2.5 ghz or an 2500XP? What is your FSB?

(I only have a small idea of what I'm talking about here, so bear with me)

My new system runs an AMD Athlon, with a 2.4 ghz processor... XP is telling me that I'm running at... 2.398 mhz. Perhaps, could it be something you set in BIOS? I know that that could affect your speed, so...

someone said it may be the power supply settings

arent 2.5 ghz and 2500xp the same thing, and the fsb is 333

someone said it may be the power supply settings

arent 2.5 ghz and 2500xp the same thing, and the fsb is 333
It could indeed be due to power, esp if it is in a laptop? To save power, the chip "steps-down" its speed when not being used heavily.
And no, 2.5 GHz and 2500xp are not the same thing. The "2500" designation says that the processor (supposedly) performs like a 2.5 GHz Intel processor. However, the actual default clock speed is 1.83 GHz.
You said that the FSB is 333Mhz. Did you see that in the Bios, or just read it on the box? Did you build this computer? What type of mobo? There may be jumpers you have to set for the FSB to make it run with the 333 MHz FSB. The speed you quoted could be caused by running with a 200 MHz (2x100) FSB. Check it out

You need to go under cmos setup and change your FSB from 100mhz to 166. That should fix your problem. Athlon XP 2500+ should run at 1.83 ghz

I bought a 2.5 ghz processor, however is system information it tells me its only 1.09 ghz. I have looked on the processor and it says 2.5ghz so what is wrong?
Im running xp pro if thats any help.
Thanx
Adi
You need to go under cmos setup and change your FSB from 100mhz to 166. That should fix your problem. Athlon XP 2500+ should run at 1.83 ghz.