"Unknown CPU" slower?

Aug 29, 2004
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I was just wondering whether it matters that my NF7-S v2 doesn't recognize my mobile athlon xp as such. Does windows xp do anything different because it believes this is an "unknown cpu?" Thanks in advance.
 

Peter

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Oct 15, 1999
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It's the BIOS that doesn't initialize the CPU correctly. You'll get a wrong name string, extensions like SSE not enabled, and if things really get bad, caches disabled.