Athlon XP running slow.
 

I just built my new system with an athlon xp 2600 which is supposed to run at 2.13, but my system is showing it at 1,66 ghz. Any ideas?

where did you get youre benchmark from?? i wanna try my new system out

does your mobo support the XP 2600? you may have to flash the bios

here's a great forum, post there and i'm sure they'd be able to help you

http://www.hardforums.com

give us some specs

make sure your bus speed is set correctly..if you built it usually the bus speed is at a lower setting out of the box...check your MOBO's manual and see what the correct bus speed is for your CPU..its probably set at 100 mhz(which is the default) when it should be set at 133 if its a 266MHx bus or 166 if its a 333mhz bus to change it you might have to either change a setting in bios(if its a good board) or it might suX0r like mine and have a switch on the board..take a look in the manual and find out

Thanks for the help. I had to tweak the BIOS a bit. It's reading right, now.

I had a similar problem, except with an Athlon XP2500. Had to over clock it in BIOS, now it runs pretty good. My only question is: Is 50 degrees unusually hot for an Athlon to run at? Because my processor generally runs at that, so, anyone who knows about the heat tolerances of Athlons, if you could reply back here, that'd be great cool:

50 Degrees (remeber thats celcius) is about the point that you don't want your athlon to go over.

Meaning that is a little hot, but you will be ok. Obviously you would be better with some case fans, etc, etc.

[quote="Captain Wilkins":98cf8]I had a similar problem, except with an Athlon XP2500. Had to over clock it in BIOS, now it runs pretty good. My only question is: Is 50 degrees unusually hot for an Athlon to run at? Because my processor generally runs at that, so, anyone who knows about the heat tolerances of Athlons, if you could reply back here, that'd be great cool:[/quote:98cf8]

50 C is fine, the max is 70 C for Athlon XP, it says it in my manual

When you boot up, go into BIOs options and make sure cpu speed is set right. I have an Athlon Thunderbird 1.33ghz cpu and the BIOs read it at 1ghz for the default setting. I then just set it to read at full speed in the CPU PnP Setup Page of the BIOs options.

[quote="Da_Bian":a89fa][quote="Captain Wilkins":a89fa]I had a similar problem, except with an Athlon XP2500. Had to over clock it in BIOS, now it runs pretty good. My only question is: Is 50 degrees unusually hot for an Athlon to run at? Because my processor generally runs at that, so, anyone who knows about the heat tolerances of Athlons, if you could reply back here, that'd be great cool:[/quote:a89fa]

50 C is fine, the max is 70 C for Athlon XP, it says it in my manual[/quote:a89fa]

^^true^^

Is 50 your idle temp or under load?

[quote:cc314]^^true^^

Is 50 your idle temp or under load? [/quote:cc314]

ummm...50c is the temperature it almost always runs at. Does that help? oOo:

take a deep breath & blow on it a few times.

[quote="[MOD]Gen.WikiWeaponn":3f2f7]50 Degrees (remeber thats celcius) is about the point that you don't want your athlon to go over.

Meaning that is a little hot, but you will be ok. Obviously you would be better with some case fans, etc, etc.[/quote:3f2f7]

Actually...The breaking point of an Athalon is 90 Celcius and not 50.

If your idle is 50 it's still fine.......i'd get a bit worried if it would hit 75-80C.

But below 70 Celcius the idle temp is pretty ok. Having 20C idle is VERY good but also noisy/expensive/messy.