Was I Jipped?

[Penance]

I bought a 1.2gHz Thundebird off pricewatch. It was listed as 266FSB but when I run Sandra, Mainboard Info warns "FSB exceeds chipset rated speed".

"chipset" is pretty vague: board chip or CPU chip? This doesn't make sense in any case because it also lists the system chipset FSB speed as 2x133mhz(266mhz data rate), so the board is fine.

Did they lie to me and send me a 200FSB cpu (system runs fine except for outrageous temps)?

I think an outdated bios may be the problem. I've never updated a bios before though so could someone post a good link? It've already found the new drivers I just don't know the process.

[Thelemac]

If you didn't have to change anything to get it running at 1200 and it's running at 133 FSB then you got the 266 chip.

Not sure what Sandra means by that, though the chipset is usually the one on the motherboard.

[Oni]

I wouldn't trust Sandra for that. I just use it to get an estimate of what kind of bandwidth my memory has.

[eobard]

Sandra can get stupid, it used to say my Duron's default voltage was 1.06v (that ain't no typo!)

[flounder43]

When I run sandra, it says that all of the time...Not true

[Jeniva]

hmm..sandra actually lists my p3 slot 1 vcore correctly @1.65

[JAWS]

When receiving that warning, I just figured my fsb was set to high!

[The Coolest]

You can check about the CPUs FSB by removing the HS and the thermal paste/goop and looking at the first line on the core:
if it says: A1200AMS3C then u got the 266FSB if u have a B as the last char of first line then u got 200FSB chip