savak Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 HiI have a new Athlon 3200+ (2.2ghz). The bios on my Giga-Byte 7VT600-RZ motherboard shows it at 1.1 ghz.How can I get it show the full 2.2ghz?Thanks in advanceGraeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 Look in your BIOS for the FSB setting for the CPU. This needs to be set to 200MHz(as it's currently only showing as 1.1GHz, it's probably set at 100MHz at the moment). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan2273 Posted May 16, 2005 Report Share Posted May 16, 2005 Dagwood is correct if you look at this table.AMD Athlon™ XP Product InformationAMD model numbers, based on industry-standard benchmarks on a wide range of popular software, are a simple, accurate representation of relative AMD processor performance. The model number methodology is designed to help end users simplify their PC purchase decision. The higher the model number, the better the overall software performance on the processor. The "+" at the end of each model number indicates the added performance benefits delivered by AMD's innovative processor designs. Model Number 2800+ 3000+ 3200+ Frequency 2083 MHz 2167 MHz 2200 MHz L1 Cache Size 128 KB L2 Cache Size 512 KB Front side bus 333 MHz 400 MHz Integer pipelines 3 Floating point pipelines 3 Multimedia instructions 3DNow™ and MMX™ Socket type 462 pin microPGA, Socket A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savak Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Thanks.Turned out to be a jumper on the motherboard. Now running at full 2.2ghzGraeme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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