My AMD 2500+ has just been picked up as a 3200+ in windows after an overclock?

[Jimmy Little]

My AMD 2500+ has just been picked up as a 3200+ in windows after an overclock?

I was playing around with the FSB on my SN41G2 shuttle and after changing to these settings my pc booted up and windows shows the below info




My bios stuff that changed was

System Performance – Expert
FSB Frequency - 195
CPU Interface – Aggressive
Memory Frequency – [sync]
Memory Timing – Optimal

I have a AMD 2500+ chip with AQXEA codes, which I brought second hand, I have 512 of ddr2700 ram…

Is this all correct?

[[GSV]Trig]

FSB should be 200 for XP3200, maybe its close enuf to make windows think it is a 3200...

[Allen]

Mine just always comes up with unknown CPU type all the time, even at standard XP clocks like 11x166MHz or 11x200MHz.

[Jimmy Little]

i'm well pleased!! i might try for 200 again, but i don't see the point as it's 100% stable at 195 and was not at 200, so i'm happy for the mo, my idle cpu is 46 and system temps are 37 - not bad for a shuttle

[[GSV]Trig]

Your lucky at that with PC2700 RAM tbh.....
200 is PC3200 territory...

[Jimmy Little]

woo! hoo!

i think i will just keep it at 195 then

[RoGuE|SaBeR]

bah!

Get some decent PC 3200 and go for broke

210 or 220 if your extremely lucky!

[yamangman]

My CPU does that also. A Barton 2500+ running at or near the speed of a 3200+ would make the CPU's identical, so it's not somthing abnormal.

[Lee H]

if your lucky like me you'll be able to get at least 2.2 Ghz out of that processor. I've got mine running @ 400 Mhz with the multiplier @ 11 = 2.2 Ghz. I had to increase the vcore just a fraction and with low latency memory its a flier

The best clock I've had on this 2500+ was 2300 Mhz but after a while it seemed a little flakey so back to 2.2 Ghz it is

[Swafe]

thats impressive tho - because hes using pc2700 ram, it would be probably a poor overclock with pc3200

but 166 mhz @ 195 is brilliant top work

[Jimmy Little]

cheers, i will leave it like that as like i said it's a shuttle and i don't want it too toasty or overworking that little psu

[menthel]

The shuttle psu's are rather hardy. Look at what i am doing to mine in my sig! And my 250w psu silent thing is still sat in its box.

[Swafe]

it should be fine, i ran my shuttle sn41g2 @ about 220fsb before on a xp2500m, runnin 2 sticks of mem, 2 hdds, dvdrw, cathodes, geez about everything i could fit in there and it was ok

[Jimmy Little]

ok i might give it a go!

[daniel_owen_uk]

Overclock till it fails then back it off a little, no point having good hardware and not using it to its full potential, btw my nf7s used to report things like that (xp3200 chip), bios update sorted it.

[LayZeh]

Allen, the reason your processor reports as "Unknown CPU Typ" both at boot-up and in Windows is because it's a mobile part, a modified bios will be required for it to display correctly.