On Sunday 03 November 2002 09:50 am, The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Sunday 03 November 2002 2:05 pm, David Johanson wrote:
AMD Athlon AX-1800 processor The bios has setting for clocking chips up to 2300, but the best I could get from this combination was using auto setup at 1500, well under its rated speed.
The AMD chip runs at around 1500MHz, but with a rated "processor speed" of an 1800+ You may note the "+" sign when dealing with these processors. Thats because, I believe, the whole MHz thing is a load of cr-p anyway :o) It doesn't necessarily tally, what with quantispeed etc.
My AMD 1800+ runs at: cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu MHz : 1527.258
And it is nice and fast.
My cooler has no "heatsinking compound" [the white gunk] but does have a pink "tab" that is a bit sticky and AMD do not guarantee the processor if it isn't used [IIRC] as the gunk breaks down over time, where the patch doesn't.
You *MAY* have been missold the cooler. If the dealer recommended it, then take it up with the dealer, and the MHz rating of the Athlons [1500+ upwards I believe] isn't the speed of the processor, more its equivalent I think :o)
Don't take any of this as 100% accurate, it is just my experiences.
Take care,
Jon -------------------------------
Jon is right about the clock speed reading which appears is what you might have been reading, from your mail David. Usually when you turn the machine on though, it should give you a readout of the cpu type and model. Of course this happens rather quickly and is easy to miss. None of the Athlon cpus that I have gotten from my distributor have had a fan cooler that used the white heat sink compound! In fact, that is usually not recommend for these newer cpus and I have never seen anything like that in the official packaged AMD cpus! If you purchase a packaged AMD chip, the correct cooler/heatsink is included. Sounds like Tiger "upgraded" your cooler and possibly sold you the wrong one! I have an upgraded heatsink on my 1700+, but my distributor is pretty knowledgable about such things. I did get the correct fan/heatsink as well in my 'official' AMD package. The cpu gets very hot very quickly and I am not sure your motherboard would have time to react to it's eminent demise. My first guess would be that the white compound kept the heat from being transferred correctly and things got out of hand before anything could react. You could have had a bad cpu also, that's really hard to tell what caused it to fail. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206