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[Ian]

Hi,

Please excuse me, I am a complete novice at tweaking processor and memory
performance, but I have the following query:

Asus Probe software reports that my Athlon XP 3200 has maximum speed of
3000Mhz and its current speed is 2200Mhz.

Is this normal?

How can I increase the speed?


Ian

 

[Ben Pope]

Hi,

Please excuse me, I am a complete novice at tweaking processor and memory
performance, but I have the following query:

Asus Probe software reports that my Athlon XP 3200 has maximum speed of
3000Mhz and its current speed is 2200Mhz.

Is this normal?

How can I increase the speed?

Asus Probe is a fool.

Your CPU is correctly at 200MHz*11.

You could try overclocking, but 3GHz is out of the question.

If you want to overclock, then you need to know a thing or two about
your system, there are lots of guides out there. If you need to ask
more questions, start it in a new thread.

Ben

 

[Ian]

Asus Probe is a fool.

Your CPU is correctly at 200MHz*11.

You could try overclocking, but 3GHz is out of the question.

If you want to overclock, then you need to know a thing or two about
your system, there are lots of guides out there. If you need to ask
more questions, start it in a new thread.

Ben

Thanks for the info Ben. I'm not really interested in overclocking, I just
wanted to make sure it was running at its normal maximum speed.

Ian

 

[Paul]

Hi,

Please excuse me, I am a complete novice at tweaking processor and memory
performance, but I have the following query:

Asus Probe software reports that my Athlon XP 3200 has maximum speed of
3000Mhz and its current speed is 2200Mhz.

Is this normal?

How can I increase the speed?


Ian

AMD processors are named according to their "Performance
Rating" or P.R. value. The AthlonXP 3200+ is equivalent to
a Pentium4 3.2GHz. A Sempron 3200+ would be equivalent to
a Celeron 3.2Ghz. (I.e. Semprons are compared to Celerons,
while Athlons are compared to P4.)

The normal speed for a 3200+ is 200x11=2200MHz, as you have
noted. When running at 2200MHz, the processor performs like
it was a P4 at 3.2GHz.

Before you increase the speed, you should be running
Memtest86 (from memtest.org) and Prime95 (from mersenne.org).
Memtest86 will format a floppy for you, and the floppy will
boot your computer standalone, with no OS. Prime95, on the
other hand, runs from Windows. If you cannot run the Prime95
"torture test" error free, you need to fix up your memory
first, before you can consider overclocking. The Nforce2
doesn't tolerate cheap RAM, and it is a struggle to work at
DDR400 or higher. (I had to buy new RAM for mine.)

If your RAM is error free, then head on over to nforcershq.com
and read some of the postings on overclocking, in the forums
over there.

Paul