Processor is AMD XP 2000 but Win XP says 1.66mhz

[IndyGill]

Hi All

I have just built up a new PC, its a AMD Athlon XP2000 with an ECS motherboard. I have installed Windows XP Pro on it. However when I go to the systems manager to the see the spec of the PC it says that I have 1.66Mhz processor in my machine.

When the PC boots up the BIOS tells me that I have a AMD Athlon XP 2000 processor. Is there a setting or something I have missed?

Many thanks in adavance

 

[lbrown13]

I believe that processor is actually a 1.67Ghz.
AMD changed their naming scheme of processors
so the numeric number doesn't match the actual
speed. Not sure why they did this but it is
somewhat confusing.


Larry

 

[Scotsdude]

Larry's right. What the 2000+ means is that the processor should roughly perform at the equivalent of a processor running at 2Ghz (ie a P4), at least according to AMD. At the moment, test results and real world reviews would appear to be agreeing with this....

Don't worry anyway - even a CPU running at 1.66 Ghz is more than enough. Let me put it this way - I'm running XP Pro on a AMD Duron 950Mhz, 256Mb DDR PC2100 and a Gigabyte mobo, with a GeForce 2 MX200 graphics card, and I can run Unreal Tournament 2003 just fine. Scotsdude
Help us help you - let us know when our insane scribblings help!!

 

[Grenage]

Indeed, AMD don't believe the mhz system is sufficient anymore so they just throw on a rating they believe matches a corresponding Intel chip.

so a 2000 won't be 2000mhz, while windows will report it's clock speed.

 

[IndyGill]

Cheers chaps the above was a great help

 

[Snickle]

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_861_1008~10226,00.html#24356

and

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/25531B_Quantispeed_wp2.pdf

give more details on QuantiSpeed™ architecture.