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by tangelsss

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why is it they show a AMD athlon xp 2000 processor that should be run at 2000 mhz and then thay say it running only at 1750 and when it is put in the computer it only run's at 1700 and this is put in a motherboard that can handle 2000+.... and how do they get away with this!!

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by thechas

Per the AMD data sheet for the Athlon XP series of CPU's, the correct clock speed for an XP 2000 is 1667 KHz.

AMD rates the speed of the XP series of CPU's by the effective performance, not the actual clock speed.
That is, an XP CPU has the equivalent performance of a Pentium 4 of the same speed.

If they did up the clock speed of the XP2000 since they printed the data-sheet, you may be able to get a BIOS update from your motherboard mfg to correct the speed difference.

Chas

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