AMD Athlon XP 3200+ FSB @ 200 mhz, should be 1 ghz?

[Sanius]

I need to know this, but last time I checked, my processer is running at 200 mhz on the FSB. But it's advertised as 1 ghz. Should I crank it up to 1 ghz, or leave it?

 

[Vegitto]

FSB != 1 GHz. It's always been 100, 133, 166 or 200 for AMD. Soon, it'll be 333, right?

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: Sanius
I need to know this, but last time I checked, my processer is running at 200 mhz on the FSB. But it's advertised as 1 ghz. Should I crank it up to 1 ghz, or leave it?

That's your RAM speed. The XP runs at a multiple of the RAM speed, likely about 11. Technically, using DDR, if the RAM is 200, the FSB is 400. There are a lot of places on the net you can look up the total speed, exact multiplier number, etc. Just do a Google. Google is your friend. Depending on the RAM itself, the BIOS in the MB, and the flexibility of the particular XP 3200, you may be able to crank the FSB up past 200 by 10-12 MHz, maybe more.

So if the stock speed for a 3200 was 2.2 GHz, you could add 10 MHz times the multiplier, and be adding 110 MHz to the 2.2 = 2.31.

http://www.thedigerati.us/info/amdcpuchart.html#ath


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