Misleading Spec's

[acebaby]

Bought a Athlon 64 3300+ which is rated 2.4 ghz with 512ddr.When I look up system properties it is saying 1.8ghz and 384ddr.What gives.

 

[tf1]

As you suggest, it looks like the vendor have not supplied the correct processor or memory modules. It may be a genuine mistake, so I would contact the vendor in the first instance and give them the opportunity to provide the correct parts.


Regards: tf1

 

[Freestone]

If your motherboard has onboard video, the missing 128MB of memory may be dedicated to this. As far as the CPU, it may be clocked wrong by the vendor, or just not the correct part, as suggested by tf1.

 

[acebaby]

Power options, power schemes were energy,select always on corrected the speed info to 2.4

 

[tf1]

So all is OK now? You can confirm the RAM discrepancy is due to the Video by running Belarc Advisor on your PC.

http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

Regards: tf1

 

[mainegeek]

Also,you can check them both by running dxdiag as well, though not as detailed as Belarc.

 

[paparazi]

acebaby
Seems logical that onboard video is using 128mb of your system memory (if onboard?)
As for you CPU speed, well that's likely down to an incorrect bios or jumper setting, maybe they set the front side bus to 166 when it should be 200 (DDR memory takes this to 400) Athlon64's are 400fsb.
Martin


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[cdogg]

Use this little freeware app to be sure:

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

~cdogg
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