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P4 3.06ghz/1m/533
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Soldato
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Tried a BIOS update? Or is the board too old for Prescotts?
Its a dell pc that im putting the chip into(intel 845 chipset) with the latest bios. It only supports chips up to 3.06ghz and 512k of cache. I have bought a 1mb cache chip which doesnt run at full speed in that board due to the extra cache it cant use. If anyone wants to swap let me know.
Soldato
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Dandle said:
If it boots and runs in the board then its using the 1mb cache, cpus just can't turn off 1/2 their cache like that
If you mean not run at full speed in terms of Mhz then it might be the speedstep function which you might not be able to do anything about even in software. If its at 3.06GHz then everythings fine and the 1mb cache is being used as its not the board that detemines it use its the cpu. Just trying to save you some hassle Cheers for your replies i appreciate them. The bios of the board doesnt give me the option of enabling hyper-threading like it should(it is the latest and only official bios), the bios also only displays that the chip has 512k of cache which is what made me think that the chip wasnt compatible with the board. The actual cpu speed is 1.6ghz with no option of changing it, although the fsb is at 533mhz which is the max the board supports and the chip is a 533 one. Booting into windows the cpu is displayed as a 3.06ghz chip but again the actual speed is 1.6ghz and its displayed as a single core in windows task manager.
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yeah mate thats speedstep I think, run orthos at 100% load and look at the cpu's speed again, it should jump to 3.06ghz, think maybe this thread should be moved to cpu forum?