You guys using AMD processors, when you power on the computer does it say the exact speed of your processor? I bought a AMD Athlon XP 2700+ according to what it said on the packaging. But when I installed it and powered on it says Athlon XP 1500+ on the screen. The MOBO found my 1GB of Corsair XMS memory just fine.

 

Mine does.

 

Tips:

1: Flash your BIOS. You could have an outdated software package that doesnt support your chip speed yet.

2: Check your BIOS settings. I can underclock my chip from within the BIOS, that may be your case.

3: Check your FSB speed too.

 

Mine says 2000XP when I boot, and that is what I have... for now!

 

Thanks Chris!! I downloaded the BIOS revision that supports the 2700+. I had left the BIOS settings at default, but I will check to see what they need to be set at for the processor.

How do I set up my CDRW drive to be a bootable drive? It wouldn't work as a boot drive last night so I had to download the XP setup floppies from Microsoft's website.

 

For the CPU you need to go into advanced chipset options and correct the set the multiplier for your CPU (In your BIOS)

And for your CDRom, you need to go into your BIOS and change the boot sequence so cdrom is first instead of your floppy disk drive.

 

I got rid of my XP 2000+ in exchange for a XP 1700+. Right now it's running at 2200+ (1.8ghz) and CPU temp is a balmy 35C. As soon as my other mobo comes back from RMA I'll push it up to around 2500+ or so...

Chad, I would guess it's all in your FSB and multiplier settings

 

I am going to start by upgrading the BIOS, since there are new versions available.

If that doesn't work, then I will look at the FSB & multiplier.

 

did ya get it figured out man?

 

Yep, I had to upgrade the bios and then change the processor frequency from 100Mhz to 166Mhz in the bios and now is says 2700+ when I boot up.

Just got to finish loading everything.

 

good deal. I'm waiting on my soltek to come back from RMA so I can set the FSB to 200

 

Okay, I got everything loaded back up and ran the 3Dmark2001 SE with everything in the default settings and it came out like this. The processor is Athlon XP 2700+

Not bad huh

 

"The project id is not valid - please check the URL."

 

That's weird it worked for me, anyways 14531 marks was the score.

 

It said something about the project couldn't be published because of an undetected component, which was my AMD Athlon XP 2700+ processor with 333 FSB. Anyway here are the results:

System Configuration
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

DirectX Version 8.1



Mobo Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.

Mobo Model A7N8X2.0

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 8x / 4x 8x



CPU Unknown 2163 MHz

FSB 166 MHz

Memory 1024 MB



Graphics Chipset ATI RADEON 9700/9500 Series

Driver Name RADEON 9700/9500 SERIES

Driver Version 6.13.10.6200

Video Memory 128 MB



Program Version 3DMark2001 SE

Resolution 1024x768 32bit

Texture Format Compressed

FSAA Disabled

Z-Buffer Depth 24bit

Frame Buffer Double

Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L



Test Results
3DMark Score 14531 3D marks



Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 196.1 FPS

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 71.1 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 280.8 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 147.7 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 185.2 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 82.2 FPS

Game 4 Nature 94.5 FPS



Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1701.2 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2506.5 MTexels/s



High Polygon Count (1 light) 63.3 MTriangels/s

High Polygon Count (8 lights) 13.8 MTriangels/s



Environment Bump Mapping 129.8 FPS

DOT3 Bump Mapping 184.1 FPS



Vertex Shader 190.4 FPS

Pixel Shader 190.3 FPS

Advanced Pixel Shader 187.8 FPS



Point Sprite 35.2 MSprites/s