Am I doing something stupid?? My Athlon mobile is underclocked on A7N8X-E Deluxe!!!
Hi,
I'm trying to run a AMD Athlon Mobile 2400+ (1.6Ghz) on my newly purchased A7N8X-E Deluxe mainboard.
With default settings, my system starts up on 800MHZ!!!!!!!
I've tried a lot of different stuff in the bios, but seem to be limited to 133 mhz with a multiplier of 6, giving 800mhz. From the manual, I gather I should be running 133 on CPU external frequency. (even though memory and cpu really is running 266). This to me indicates I should have a multiplier of 12. No go, in fact, even if I set it to 7, the voice command module tells me that I can not overclock the CPU!
Here are my main settings in the BIOS (When overriding the Auto, with presumably same values):
Cpu external freq: 133 (I was able to OC to 150 or 166, getting it to 1 GHZ, but..)
Multiplier:6 (nothing else is accepted)
Sisoft Sandra give me the following info after booting into win2k:
Model: Mobile AMD Athlon
Speed 802 mhz
Model Number 896 (estimated)
Performance rating PR1163 estimated
Type Mobile
Package Socket A PGA
Multiplier 6/1x
Min Max Multipler 6/1x 27/1x
Generation G7
Name Moblie Athlon XP M10 Barton Thorton 130nm 1.6Ghz+
Revision Stepping A/0
Stepping Mask A2
Am I doing something wrong, is there an issue with the motherboard, or do you think it could be something with the cpu??
Sisoft does seem to indicate that it is indeed a 1.6 ghz, though I can't confirm since I bought OEM from Newegg, with no info on the packaging of version.
Thanks!
-Tom
Hi,
I'm trying to run a AMD Athlon Mobile 2400+ (1.6Ghz) on my newly purchased A7N8X-E Deluxe mainboard.
With default settings, my system starts up on 800MHZ!!!!!!!
I've tried a lot of different stuff in the bios, but seem to be limited to 133 mhz with a multiplier of 6, giving 800mhz. From the manual, I gather I should be running 133 on CPU external frequency. (even though memory and cpu really is running 266). This to me indicates I should have a multiplier of 12. No go, in fact, even if I set it to 7, the voice command module tells me that I can not overclock the CPU!
Here are my main settings in the BIOS (When overriding the Auto, with presumably same values):
Cpu external freq: 133 (I was able to OC to 150 or 166, getting it to 1 GHZ, but..)
Multiplier:6 (nothing else is accepted)
Sisoft Sandra give me the following info after booting into win2k:
Model: Mobile AMD Athlon
Speed 802 mhz
Model Number 896 (estimated)
Performance rating PR1163 estimated
Type Mobile
Package Socket A PGA
Multiplier 6/1x
Min Max Multipler 6/1x 27/1x
Generation G7
Name Moblie Athlon XP M10 Barton Thorton 130nm 1.6Ghz+
Revision Stepping A/0
Stepping Mask A2
Am I doing something wrong, is there an issue with the motherboard, or do you think it could be something with the cpu??
Sisoft does seem to indicate that it is indeed a 1.6 ghz, though I can't confirm since I bought OEM from Newegg, with no info on the packaging of version.
Thanks!
-Tom