shenlingstyle
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I was playing around with my Athlon XP 3200+ last night and I realized I could set the multiplier to whatever I wanted. It's strange because I thought the more recent bartons had locked multipliers. This was a cpu I bought over ebay a while ago.
Anyways I thought it might be just a bug or something but due to curiosity I changed the multiplier to see what happens. It was originally at 11, I managed to change it to 9.5 before I encountered problems. At this time, the multiplier x the fsb speed was actually below the stock speed of the cpu (i.e. it was below 2.2 GHz) so I thought wow this is my opportunity to crank up the fsb speed right. So I cranked it up by 5 MHz, which even then would make the total speed still under 2.2 GHz. After I restarted, it couldn't get past the motherboard logo screen. Sometimes it can't even get past the moniter message that I always used to get before the motherboard logo pops up. Sometimes I hear the POST beep and sometimes I don't. So I had to reset the CMOS and now it's up again.
I guess my question is why the multiplier is unlocked and why I couldn't increase the fsb enough to compensate for the lower multiplier. Plus I didn't even reach the original stock speed yet.
Anyways I thought it might be just a bug or something but due to curiosity I changed the multiplier to see what happens. It was originally at 11, I managed to change it to 9.5 before I encountered problems. At this time, the multiplier x the fsb speed was actually below the stock speed of the cpu (i.e. it was below 2.2 GHz) so I thought wow this is my opportunity to crank up the fsb speed right. So I cranked it up by 5 MHz, which even then would make the total speed still under 2.2 GHz. After I restarted, it couldn't get past the motherboard logo screen. Sometimes it can't even get past the moniter message that I always used to get before the motherboard logo pops up. Sometimes I hear the POST beep and sometimes I don't. So I had to reset the CMOS and now it's up again.
I guess my question is why the multiplier is unlocked and why I couldn't increase the fsb enough to compensate for the lower multiplier. Plus I didn't even reach the original stock speed yet.