Pentium 4 vs. Athlon 64

[acphenom]

Thanks, man. But i remembered that i hd a problem. When i booted up, it 'said' (bad term, but oh well) '200MHz'. I can't remember exactly, and i don't wanna boot it just for a few seconds for obvious reasons, but i think it was referring to the bus. Now, this can't be right. The motherboard's supposed to be able to handle the 1600MHz Bus, right? Or do i need to go into the BIOS and do some tweaking?

 

[SSE4]

For an AMD64 it still has the "multiplier" with a normal BUS speed. So you would be 200MHz multiplied by 9 to make 1800MHz. Could be something with the BUS. Therefore you should review your current BIOS settings.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Its best to get it into Windows before you start trying to work out what the Processor is doing. Is there not a way you can tell the processor speed in Fedora?

 

[SSE4]

Oh this is in Fedora. Maybe I should have payed more attention.

 

[acphenom]

Hmm...i confused. There probably is a way to find out the CPU specs in FC3, but i don't know it if there is. I just intend to get 'good ol' Win Xp installed on there, just for the sake of viewing the 'My Computer Properties' and seeing 'AMD Athlon(tm) 64 1.80GHz lol

 

[SSE4]

It's probably best to just get Windows XP on the system ASAP anyway. I'm not all that good with Linux.

 

[acphenom]

Yeah, but i need SP2. You see, i can't afford to pay £90 for a legal version, so i gotta use a pirated copy. But can i download SP2 and other updates for it? That's the problem with Windows, really. Linux is free in money terms.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

If you have a friend with a legal copy you can download updates from the Download Site for Network Installs, and then install them on your PC.

 

[ComputerWizard]

doh i messed up, forgot to read rest of posts sorry for posting off subject lol

 

[acphenom]

Sorry, but i don't understand what you mean, LK. I'm gonna download SP2 and install it (perhaps a bad idea but i don't mind living dangerously), so hopefully, everything will be great. The A64 2800+ is labelled as:

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
2800+
1.81GHz

With the MB, i got a disk which has something to overclock with in Windows. It reads that the multiplier is '9.0' and then a '200' in the corner which produces '1800' in a bigger box. I think this is the bus speed, but i had to re-install Win XP Pro, and i forgot to reinstall that program this time round. Something like 'EasyTune4' anyway.