Clock Ratio's

[bstatham]

I have a Gigabyte GA-7VTXE Motherboard with an Athlon 1600+ XP 1.4Ghz SoA processor. I have something that is puzzling me! The current clock speed is running at 1050MHz, of course I want my full 1400Mhz so here's the question. My current current CPU FSB setting is set to 100Mhz, whats confusing me are these DIP switch things which alter the clock ratio, and multipliers from 5x up to >=12.5x. What should I change, considering my current CPU temp is running at about 40 C already???

 

[bacillus]

can't say exactly with your board but there may be a jumper or bios change you have to make to let the m/board know that its a 133fsb cpu & not a 100fsb one. check your manual!

 

[Adul]

Athlon XP only run at 133 Mhz bus. I am not sure what chipset is in your MB, but you need to change the bus speed to 133 Mhz to get the full 1400 mhz from the athlon XP.

 

[Retina]

I had a similar problem with an Athlon XP 1800+ with an ABIT KR7A-Raid. The BIOS seemed to recognize the CPU as a lower grade Athlon processor and rated the speed at 1150MHz (I think). After nervously thinking about it, I simply went into the BIOS and toggled through the settings to get to what my CPU should be rated as. Changing the name also changed the other specs to what it should have been. Upon rebooting, the BIOS then correctly identified the processor and the temperature still idles around 40C. Apparently, the BIOS defaulted to the lowest setting?

If you can, give it a shot. Just keep an eye on your temperature.

Cheers.