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July 13, 2000 at 09:09 AM
azizhakim

CPU UPGRADE

by azizhakim . Updated 25 years, 9 months ago

IN ATTEMPT TO FURTHER MY KNOWLEDGE IN PC HARDWARE I UNDERTOOK THIS PROJECT.I UPGRADED
MY PC WITH AN ASUS P5-A MOTHERBOARD W/AMD K6-2 CPU(333MHZ)THING WENT WELL.I DECIDED TO PURCHASE A FASTER CPU.GOT AN AMD K6-2(450MHZ)
REPLACED THE CPU .RESET THE JUMPERS AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE BOARD DOCUMENTATION(THIS WAS MY FIRST TIME WITH JUMPERS).THE PREVIOUS SETTINGS WERE 66.8MHz W/MULTIPLE OF 5.0 TO GIVE IT 334MHz CPU SPEED.I SET IT FOR 100MHz
W/MUTIPLE OF 4.5 TO GIVE IT IT’S 450 MHz EXTERNAL SPEED,HERE IS THE PROBLEM.I WAS TOLD
THE MAXIMUM INTERNAL SPEED IS 95 MHz.THE DOCUMENTATION DOES NOT GIVE ME THE CPU TO BUS
FREQUENCY MULTIPLE OF 95MHz TO TOTAL THE 450MHz CPU SPEED.I SEE THE SPEED DURING POST,@450MHz,BUT DO NOT NOTICE ANY CHANGE IN PERFORMANCE.IS THERE A WAY TO FIND THE INTERNAL SPEED TO SEE IF I INSTALLED THE JUMPERS CORRECTLY.I HAVE WINNT AS MY OS.AFTER
I UPGRADED TO 450MHz,WINNT EVEN ASKED ME FOR
MORE VIRTUAL RAM WHICH I CHANGED FROM 64MB TO
110 MB(THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED TO ME) I CURRENTLY HAVE 64 MB-PHY

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