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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: hubsonfire on February 18, 2005, 05:40:37 PM

Title: A7N8X-X w/ AMD xp2400+ ---Clock Mults and Memory Speed settings
Post by: hubsonfire on February 18, 2005, 05:40:37 PM

I just updated the BIOS to revision 1009, and it seems to have wiped all my memory/bus frequencies and multipliers, or at least set them to defaults. Far better than roasting the chips, but it leaves me with the problem of setting them back to whatever they were at, or maybe even tweaking them a bit for better performance.

Seeing as this PC was put assembled and setup by friend who now lives 180 miles away, I'm not terribly sure what the multipliers and such were. I've looked online, but I'm a little leary of using settings laid out by folks I don't know, especially since I have no use for a large black paperweight (which i fear my tower would then become).

It seems that this is a fairly common board, and lots of folks like the AMD stuff, and seem quite familiar with their products. Having (hopefully) buttered you guys up, I'd like some input regarding memory frequencies and clock multiplier settings that would give me a nice, stable machine, and maybe even get it running a bit faster.

Asus A7N8X-X mobo
AMD XP 2400+
512MB DDRAM - PC2700

Not sure if there's any other relevant information I should post here, but please let me know if there is.

Thanks for your input and attention to my hardware concerns.

Cheers,
hub

Title: A7N8X-X w/ AMD xp2400+ ---Clock Mults and Memory Speed settings
Post by: bloom25 on February 21, 2005, 07:01:38 PM

The Athlon XP 2400+ runs at a true clockspeed of 2.00 GHz.  It uses a 266 MHz effective front side bus (133 MHz DDR).

The correct stock settings for this CPU are a front side bus frequency of 133 MHz and a CPU multiplier of 15.0.

Title: A7N8X-X w/ AMD xp2400+ ---Clock Mults and Memory Speed settings
Post by: wrag on February 22, 2005, 07:02:29 AM

'm running an XP 2500+ Barton.  Watch the voltage.  Mine is set to 1.6 as the board was setting it to 1.7 causing increased heat issues.

My FSB is 333  with the processor runnin at the second higest setting of 18xx something which I am told is correct.

Do a web search of AMD or go here and enter in your info.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/

or here

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182,00.html

or here

http://www.amdmb.com/

or here

http://usa.asus.com/index.htm

or here

http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/mbindex.htm

or here

http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socketa/a7n8x-x/overview.htm

Title: A7N8X-X w/ AMD xp2400+ ---Clock Mults and Memory Speed settings
Post by: Roscoroo on February 22, 2005, 10:57:32 AM

12.0 x 166  runs really nice on  the 2400+

(thats what ive got the mrs roo's pc set at)  it runs nice and cool here too 41c -46c

ive tried 2.1 ghz but the performance increase over the temp rise isnt worth it