Hey guys, I got a little mystery here.
I was running a friends comp through the paces and I can't really figure out what kind of processor he's got. It's an IBM NetVista 2276. IBM is telling me that it's a PIII 800 and that's the speed it's running at. I started to run Sandra and CPUID on it tho and it comes back as a Coppermine E(B) which my research tells me that the EB Coppermine processors are supposed to run at a 133mhz fsb. So I figure it must be using a 6x multiplier as 6x133 is 800Mhz. I look up the mobo, however, and it comes back as a Whitney, which is the i810 chipset. If memory serves correct(which it often fails to do so), the 810 only ran at 100 mhz fsb. Diggin in a little, Sandra is telling me the CPU is running at 8x 100mhz fsb. Sandra is telling me the chip is rated for just over a ghz (8x133) worth of performance, but I don't listen to Sandra anyways. The thing is, I don't want to start scounging out the serial number on the chip and start doing lookups for it if it's something silly. I seems to me that it is just a regular E coppermine processor and was reported wrong. It hardly makes sense that IBM would be underclocking their processors as much as 200mhz when they could simple drop it into a BX or i815 board and sell a 1ghz computer for a few hundred bux more. So my question is, what processor do I have on my hands? Do coppermine eb chips run at 100mhz fsb by default as well? I had thought the B indicated 133fsb. It's kinda mind boggling as I don't have all that much experience with things bearing an intel sticker. I know it's prolly something stupid or whatnot, but I'd like to know as my friend has two of these exact comps and it's understandably unsettling to not be able to figure out what is goin on.
I was running a friends comp through the paces and I can't really figure out what kind of processor he's got. It's an IBM NetVista 2276. IBM is telling me that it's a PIII 800 and that's the speed it's running at. I started to run Sandra and CPUID on it tho and it comes back as a Coppermine E(B) which my research tells me that the EB Coppermine processors are supposed to run at a 133mhz fsb. So I figure it must be using a 6x multiplier as 6x133 is 800Mhz. I look up the mobo, however, and it comes back as a Whitney, which is the i810 chipset. If memory serves correct(which it often fails to do so), the 810 only ran at 100 mhz fsb. Diggin in a little, Sandra is telling me the CPU is running at 8x 100mhz fsb. Sandra is telling me the chip is rated for just over a ghz (8x133) worth of performance, but I don't listen to Sandra anyways. The thing is, I don't want to start scounging out the serial number on the chip and start doing lookups for it if it's something silly. I seems to me that it is just a regular E coppermine processor and was reported wrong. It hardly makes sense that IBM would be underclocking their processors as much as 200mhz when they could simple drop it into a BX or i815 board and sell a 1ghz computer for a few hundred bux more. So my question is, what processor do I have on my hands? Do coppermine eb chips run at 100mhz fsb by default as well? I had thought the B indicated 133fsb. It's kinda mind boggling as I don't have all that much experience with things bearing an intel sticker. I know it's prolly something stupid or whatnot, but I'd like to know as my friend has two of these exact comps and it's understandably unsettling to not be able to figure out what is goin on.
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