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"Changing my processor clock speed"

Here's the situation.

My processor is an AMD 2600+ XP (edited this, it's higher than I thought)

However the clock speed is 1.17 GHz


I'm led to beleive I can jack this up to at least 1.5GHz


My RAM (if relevent) is 256 MB (not sure if thats important).



I know I'd have to do something in the BIOS however I'm not sure what, im a bit of a novice, so if you can help me I'll be very grateful.


Thanks in advance.

Lalala :-\

Double-checked my bios and the changes are being registered - it had an effect originally and changed it from 1.15 to 1.53 but it wont go above that.

Odd.

Hmm my computer doesn't seem to recognise the file, it's .AWD - any ideas?

My friend said something about chaging the FSB?

I'll try update the BIOS, I tried changing 3 times and it wont go higher :-\

Paradox: wrote:
> Changed frequency multiple to 15x and external freq to 133 and I've
> only got 1.53 MHz

Paradox: wrote:
> Found my Mainboard info:
>
> [URL]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/kyz22/mainboard.jpg[/URL]


I can quite clearly see that your multiplier is still set to 11.5 from that screenshot. Go back and try setting the multiplier again, to 16x. If it won't go up to 16x then it's possible your BIOS doesn't officially support your processor. You can rectify this by updating the BIOS, the latest version is available here: [URL]http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=10&l3_id=21&m_id=2&f_name=A7v8xx13.zip~zaqwedc[/URL]

and mainboard user manual [URL]http://www.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=10&l3_id=21&m_id=2&f_name=e1198_a7v8x-x.pdf~zaqwedc[/URL]

Thanks for any help

Found my Mainboard info:

[URL]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/kyz22/mainboard.jpg[/URL]

Also got my Processor details if useful

[URL]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v521/kyz22/cpu.jpg[/URL]

Changed frequency multiple to 15x and external freq to 133 and I've only got 1.53 MHz

Is there something else I have to change?

Thanks.


Here goes

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Paradox: wrote:
> Will I need extra cooling if I jack it up?
>
> I think I've just got two little fans.


Your processor cooling should be designed to cope with at least your processor's native speed, so you should be okay.

EDIT: no, you're not overclocking it. At the moment the processor is underclocked.