Underclocked CPU

[Nubius]

on the K7 platforms it always defaulted to an FSB of 100. So if your CPU was meant to be 133, 166, or 200, naturally when set down at 100 you'd see a loss in clock speed.

With AMD64's all having a base of 200 and the mobo's defaulting to 200, no one has to worry about that anymore.

I fell victim to the same thing before I knew computers. Thought the dude at the computer store did a quick swap on me for a crappier processor or something.

2500+ barton should be 266FSB I believe, so the FSB needs to be set to 133/266 (whatever your board displays it as, both numbers are essentially the same) but it looks like you've already got the problem figured out.

 

[nVdia]

aside from that cool n quiet halves the clock speed

Oh ok gotch

 

[The General]

my god, so you're saying if i enabled k8 cool and quiet it will run at 1 ghz?!



gross man. thats just horrible

 

[nVdia]

Ya what would be the point if you bought an highend processor and it only ran half the speed.

 

[Nitestick]

it doesn't run half the speed. when the processor is at idle it will halve the clock speed and drop the voltage to lower power consumption. as the computer isn't doing anything you don't even know the difference

 

[hullay]

43c is normal

The barton core temperlature under 90c is normal,so u CPU around 43c was safety ,also the barton core from 2500+ TO 3200+ standard FSB maybe 333Mhz.