AMD 64 2800 Processor

[Robin]

I have just installed a new M/B and AMD 64 2800 Processor,
my computer/control panel/system shows the chip to be a
2800+ as does dxdiag but the chip appears to be running at
1800 according to Gigabytes Easy-Tune 4 Is this normal?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
Robin

[Noel Paton]

Yup - that's normal, except that I didn't know that AMD were making 2800
speed AMD64's - are you sure it's not an Athlon XP2800+??



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"Robin" > wrote in message
...
> I have just installed a new M/B and AMD 64 2800 Processor,
> my computer/control panel/system shows the chip to be a
> 2800+ as does dxdiag but the chip appears to be running at
> 1800 according to Gigabytes Easy-Tune 4 Is this normal?
> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
> Robin
>

[Rick T]

Robin wrote:

> I have just installed a new M/B and AMD 64 2800 Processor,
> my computer/control panel/system shows the chip to be a
> 2800+ as does dxdiag but the chip appears to be running at
> 1800 according to Gigabytes Easy-Tune 4 Is this normal?
> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance
> Robin
>

Your processor is running at 1.8GHz

AMD has long practised naming their processors as what they consider to
be "the equivalent speed of Intel processors"... which it has never
been... though the more accurate assessment would be "our 1.8GHZ
processor produces as much heat as an Intel 2.8" <g>

Mind you the AMD 1.8GHz *is* faster than the similar clock-speed Intel
offering in many applications.

Intel is now doing this too, though what they think they're referring to
is beyond me.


Rick