Identifying an Athlon chip

[rossby]

I just installed an Athlon chip that I thought was 1GHz in an MSI KT7 Turbo board. The bios recognizes this chip as 750MHz. The number stamped on top of the chip starts with 1000******* and there is an AXIA code on a lower line.

What's going on? Did I get the wrong chip?

 

[pay]

No, that should be a 1000mhz chip. But i get the MSI board is screwing up your multipliers. MSI boards are known to do so.

 

[Rafael]

No, your chip is fine. What you got is a Athlon C, that has FSB 266 Mhz. And you are running your mobo on 200 Mhz FSB, thats why you are getting the 750 Mhz. Its cause the multiplier on the 133 Mhz x 7.5 = 1.0 Ghz, since you are running on 100 Mhz x 7.5 = 750 Mhz.
Just change to 133 Mhz and you will get the 1.0 Ghz.
BTW, AXIA is very nice cpu!

Raf

 

[MustPost]

Yup, Default is 200