Processor Speed...

[John Baker]

I bought an AMD 64 3000+ processor, running on a Shuttle AN50R MB. My OS,
XP Pro, shows that it's 1.99 Ghz. From what I remember...and i know that
this is a different chip than the regular chips, it would be about 200 Mhz
less than the number, like my old 1600 AMD was actually 1.4Ghz. Is the
1.99Ghz correct? Or am i missing something I need to change in the BIOS?

Thanks,

John

 

[Van Souza]

AMD runs like a 3000 but is really 1900... so it runs like an intel 3000
but does it at 1900...

 

[Wes Newell]

I bought an AMD 64 3000+ processor, running on a Shuttle AN50R MB. My OS,
XP Pro, shows that it's 1.99 Ghz. From what I remember...and i know that
this is a different chip than the regular chips, it would be about 200 Mhz
less than the number, like my old 1600 AMD was actually 1.4Ghz. Is the
1.99Ghz correct? Or am i missing something I need to change in the BIOS?

Default speed for the 3000+ is 2000MHz (10x200). If it carried it out
you'd see it running at 1999.xx MHz. Bugged me too, so I just set the FSB
to 201 and it ran at 2009.96MHz. IOW's don't worry about it or raise FSB.

 

[newsgroups.bellsouth.net]

Some of the reviews of AMD64 mobos that I have read say the the bus speed
( although it is supposed to be 200mhz ) ranges between 199mhz and 201mhz
normally... Weird huh? It really depends on the mobo design and clock
gen...( of course, a 1mhz dif isn't much but it can give a mild performance
increase in benchmarks... )

 

[Erez Volach]

Some of the reviews of AMD64 mobos that I have read say the the bus speed
( although it is supposed to be 200mhz ) ranges between 199mhz and 201mhz
normally... Weird huh? It really depends on the mobo design and clock
gen...( of course, a 1mhz dif isn't much but it can give a mild performance
increase in benchmarks... )

That's 0.5%. It would be like complaining your Pentium 133 rated CPU (133.33
MHz) was running at 132.66 - 134 MHz. Some clock generators are more
accurate than others...

 

[Povl H. Pedersen]

AMD runs like a 3000 but is really 1900... so it runs like an intel 3000
but does it at 1900...

Wrong. The comparison is NOT Intel, but a 1GHz Thunderbird.

 

[XS11E]

Wrong. The comparison is NOT Intel, but a 1GHz Thunderbird.

I believe he's correct. The "+" sign after an AMD speed means it will
benchmark as fast or faster than the Intel chip of the same speed, even
though it's actual clock speed is lower.

 

[Wes Newell]

Wrong. The comparison is NOT Intel, but a 1GHz Thunderbird.

You are very mistaken. It's for direct comparison to the competition,
which is Intel, This is spelled out in this doc.

Benchmarking_Methodology2_v2.5.pdf