bum wrote:hmm, ya have to check that your fsb setings are right. sometimes thiers a little switch on the motherboard and then ya gota go dig in the bios. it happened with me, actualy with me it said i had a 1.4ghz athlon on the POST , , but after fucking with the fsb and that little swich on my mobo it corectly show'd it as an athlon2600 . oh and, sometimes xp has a realy shity problem (even with sp1 installed) where explorere just sudenly starts using 99% of system resources for no good reason. actualy, sometimes it also happens when you rightclick>properties for some random file. when this happens, pres ctrl+alt+delete , click on proceses, ricktclick on explorer.exe and end task. then when its closed click on the applications tab, click on new task, and then type " explorer " (without the quotes) and press enter
bum wrote:if its a problem that only hapens in a specific instance then its probaly something with divx. or mabey its a windows problem and shouldnt SP2 have bein released fucking ages ago by now ? . meh , have ya tried encoding the vob so, say divx or something and then re-encoding it to xvid ? .
oh and, are you in queensland ? here in sydney we're having like the coldest summer in existance. we're barely reaching low 30's . last summer we we're floating in the 40's and dying of heat prety much every day
DJ_Izumi wrote:Heat makes CPUs and GPUs operate slower aswell. You should also note that AMDs do not run at their number. An Athlon 1800 does not operate at 1800mhz. They made this funny little numbering scheme to compare themselves to P4s. Basicly, an 1800 Athlon is supposed to be 'As fast as a P4 1800mhz' while the Athlon is actually running slower then you have assumed.
Scintilla wrote:DJ_Izumi wrote:Heat makes CPUs and GPUs operate slower aswell. You should also note that AMDs do not run at their number. An Athlon 1800 does not operate at 1800mhz. They made this funny little numbering scheme to compare themselves to P4s. Basicly, an 1800 Athlon is supposed to be 'As fast as a P4 1800mhz' while the Athlon is actually running slower then you have assumed.
No, they don't claim that the Athlon 1800+ is supposed to be "as fast as" a P4 at 1.8GHz. They claim that it's supposed to <i>perform as well as</i> a P4 at 1.8GHz.
Besides, Bebi did say that his Athlon 1800+'s normal speed was 1.54GHz, so I'd assume he knew about the Athlon numbering system already.
Where's DW when you need him?
SS5_Majin_Bebi wrote:
It goes without saying that I need a new Heatsink and fan, though. Normally my CPU runs at about 51º C, which I'm a little apprehensive about. I'd like to get that down by maybe another 5 degrees if I can, coz I dont know what the crash temperature of a Palomino core (i think) AMD Athlon XP 1800+ is. But if its chunking on a 43 degree day, more cooling is in order, methinks.
Basically the Athlon is more efficient than the P4 core and thus peforms better at lower frequencies
klinky wrote:AMDs official spin is that the performance ratings are based off of CPUs with the older Thunderbird core. So XP1800+ is equal to an AMD cpu with an 1.8Ghz Thunderbird core. Which the Thunderbird is no longer being made, being replaced by the palimino, thoroughbred and barton...
So how good these ratings are is kinda suspect and it's making my life difficult in finding the actuall clock rates of them :p.
The Black Monarch wrote:says some stupid stuff and tries to sound like he knows what he's talking about...*insert everyone laughing here*
The Black Monarch wrote:You once again conveniently left out the part about how they have to because they're unable to get to frequencies as high as the P4... Some guys used liquid nitrogen and overclocked a P4 to 5.25 GHz. Phase-change cooling had to be used on the fricking northbridge! For an Athlon to perform that well, it would have to attain 3.5 GHz, and so far the record is ~3.0 GHz. But the A64 3k+ ever so slightly beats a 3GHz P4 in most situations.
dwchang wrote:And if the Athlon needed to be at 3.5 Ghz to perform well then...A) why are hundreds of thousands of people buying them and B) why do benchmarks and well anyone in the industry disagreeing with you. Maybe because you're wrong.
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