Very... VERY Odd.

[2Xtreme21]

Yeah so I ordered a new mobo / proc / ram yesterday (Mobo / Proc Combo, it made it here today (yay for Tiger Direct)), installed it and everything worked PERFECTLY! It's surprising because generally things go wrong... but anyway, I started up windows, right clicked on My Comp > Properties... and look!

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If my computer's off (aka: link not working), my CPU is showing up as a Athlon XP 3200+ instead of a 2500+. I'm confused as to why this is so because I didn't overclock... and even if I DID somehow change the FSB, it'd say "Athlon 2500, x.xx GHz," no? And it's not like a computer company to just *mistake* a $150-some chip, right? Is it just windows being n00b?

 

[nboy22]

Interesting.. I think there might be a way to tell what it is if you take the heatsink and fan off, but that's your decision, not completely sure how you could tell anyways. lol.
But if you did get one and they thought it was a 2500+ I wouldn't be unhappy.

<Edit> And, ALSO, can that mobo you ordered even support a processor such as a 3200+? </Edit>

 

[cjsketchy]

try running cpu-z and see what it says... http://www.cpuid.com/download/cpu-z-122.zip

 

[2Xtreme21]

Yes the mobo supports 3200, because obviously it *IS* a 3200. After I ran the program that cjsketchy gave me, it shows up as a 3200+.

http://67.165.37.120/omg2.jpg

 

[nboy22]

cool, I'd keep it if I were you

 

[2Xtreme21]

Yes... hopefully the rebate is still valid. ^_^

 

[high]

FYI - a 2500 is just a 3200 with 333 FSB.... that'd be cool if you got a 3200 instead of a 2500..see how far she will go

 

[allanon1965]

well if you somehow did up the fsb it would say 3200.....i upped my fsb to 200 and now mine reads as a 3200+ in the bios and post.....and in windows too

 

[2Xtreme21]

Allanon, if you try the CPU program, does it say 3200 there as well?

 

[nick1985]

i built a computer for a friend once with a barton 2500, and it booted right up as a 3200. not sure why, but it defaulted at 200 FSB instead of 166. thats probably what happened in your situation also.

 

[Mavrick007]

You can tell in your cpuZ readout what the miltiplyer and fsb are and if it says 200fsb, then it could be that your board did just default to the higher fsb. Chances are you have a 2500+ running at 200fsb.

I have my 2500+ at 3200+ and it's hard to tell what it is unless you take the hsf off and check the top of the chip cause it says 11x and 200fsb (give or take 1Mhz) in cpuZ as well, and it also says it's a 3200+.

I wouldn't worry about it. No matter what it is, if it runs stable, you have a good chip

 

[Darilus]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Allanon, if you try the CPU program, does it say 3200 there as well?

My OC'd 1800+ shows up in CPU-Z as a 2600+, so yes it is possible.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Run some overclocking burn-in tests (Prime95, Memtest86+, etc.), and if it's good to go, then you lucked out. Be happy.

(As the others have stated, it appears that your chip has somehow defaulted to a 200Mhz FSB setting. Whether this is due to a buggy BIOS, or TigerDirect's settings, or something else, I have no idea. But many of the 2500+ chips will do that, so I wouldn't worry if it shows as stable after stress-testing.)

PS. The "name string" that shows up in those CPUID programs, is somehow set or can be manipulated by the BIOS. Mine shows up as XP2000+ when overclocked (1.67Ghz x 10.0), even though it's actually an XP1800+ chip.

 

[Ages120]

That must have bee a nice suprise.

 

[Ages120]

I can set my barton 2500+ to 2.2ghz although I don't have the ram to do it. When I get my new athlon 64 system I will pop in the faster ram and see if it will let run that. Just seems the FSB gets bumped up.