What's the best board for an Athlon XP 2600+ ?

[Anthropy]

Hi
I know I should have included the FSB speed but I'm not which Athlon
XP 2600+ I have. I do not have the box or contact with the vendor. Is
there a way to determine what the FSB speed is without taking the CPU
out?
Thanks.

 

[Blaedmon]

download CPU-Z

 

[Anthropy]

I did. Here are the results but I suspect the clock speeds shown are
an indication of the current settings not the potential of the CPU
generally.


AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred.


Voltage - 1.632
Family - 6
Model - 8
Stepping - 1
Ext Family - 7
Ext Model - 8
Revision - B0

Clocks.

Core Speed - 1662.8 MHz
Multiplier - x 12.5
FSB - 133.0 MHz
Bus Speed - 266 MHz

Cache

L1 data - 64 KBytes
L2 code - 64 KBytes
L2 - 256 KBytes

If any clever person can tell what my CPU is from these figures or why
my PC crashes whenever I increase the FSB from 133 Mhz to 166 Mhz I
would be very grateful.
My OS, Win XP Pro SP2, 500mb ddr 400, Geforce 440.
Thanks for any help

 

[Ed]

Hi
I know I should have included the FSB speed but I'm not which Athlon
XP 2600+ I have. I do not have the box or contact with the vendor. Is
there a way to determine what the FSB speed is without taking the CPU
out?
Thanks.

as someone else posted, try CPU-Z http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Core __Model__MHz___FSBxMult__L2 __ OPN
T-Bred 2600+ 2133 (133x16.0) 256K AXDA2600DKV3C
T-Bred 2600+ 2083 (166x12.5) 256K AXDA2600DKV3D
Barton 2600+ 1917 (166x11.5) 512K AXDA2600DKV4D

I like my (plain jane) Asus A7M8X, 21 months and still rockin without
any problems.

Good luck,
Ed

 

[Rob Stow]

I did. Here are the results but I suspect the clock speeds shown are
an indication of the current settings not the potential of the CPU
generally.


AMD Athlon XP Thoroughbred.


Voltage - 1.632
Family - 6
Model - 8
Stepping - 1
Ext Family - 7
Ext Model - 8
Revision - B0

Clocks.

Core Speed - 1662.8 MHz
Multiplier - x 12.5
FSB - 133.0 MHz
Bus Speed - 266 MHz

Cache

L1 data - 64 KBytes
L2 code - 64 KBytes
L2 - 256 KBytes

If any clever person can tell what my CPU is from these figures

What is not clear to you from the above ?

or why
my PC crashes whenever I increase the FSB from 133 Mhz to 166 Mhz I
would be very grateful.

Its probably simply because it is too much of an overclock when
you jump up the FSB by that much without also stepping down the
multiplier.

If you want a 166 MHz FSB, try an initial multiplier of 10, then
increase it by half steps until you encounter instabilities -
then go back to the last stable multiplier.

There is also an excellent chance that better cooling will be
needed if you want to overclock.

 

[Anthropy]

What is not clear to you from the above ?

Hi, thanks for the help.
Whether the CPU is an AMD XP 2600+ running at 133MHz or 166 Mhz FSB.
I think the results above are merely a reading of the current settings
in the BIOS not the statistics of the CPU.
Apparently there were 2 versions of the XP 2600+ released. (133 and
166) I need to know which I have before I buy a new motherboard.
Thanks

 

[Rob Stow]

Hi, thanks for the help.
Whether the CPU is an AMD XP 2600+ running at 133MHz or 166 Mhz FSB.
I think the results above are merely a reading of the current settings
in the BIOS not the statistics of the CPU.
Apparently there were 2 versions of the XP 2600+ released. (133 and
166) I need to know which I have before I buy a new motherboard.
Thanks

Every motherboard that can handle a 166 MHz FSB can also handle
133 and 100 MHz. Similarly, all of the 200 MHz boards can handle
166, 133, and 100 MHz.

Just play it safe and get a board that does at *least* 166 MHz.
It will probably be advertised as a 333 MHz board (333 = 166 *2).

For example, any nForce2 motherboard will do you nicely.