I recently had one of these CPU's in my emachine desktop and it ran fine for the few days i had it in use, Shortly after, since i bought the pc as overstock off a local school, the computer was torn apart for parts.

I sold most of them to friends and people i know, well no one wanted a CPU and the motherboard was too propietary to sell even on ebay no one would buy it, but the CPU sold. It ran fine the whole 3 days this computer was used. i removed the computer from a box from emachines, and it was new, now does emachines have some sort of block on there CPU's making it not run the full speed its should, unless its in the emachine board?

The person that bought it says he PC chips motherboard suypports the CPU but he says being only able to change the FSB in the Bios settings.
It only runs 1250MHz claimed by this guy, now i had it running three days before he got it, (the day i packaged it) and it ran the full 1667.

Now im absolutly positive that the packing was plenty for it to get there in one peice, and if not, the worst that could have happened was a pin bent, even though it was firmly placed in a pnk CPU foam pad, My question as well is could any rattling cause such a problem?

Otherwise i asked he check the Multiplier and make sure the bios isnt reading the chip incorrectly.

When he gets back to me ill post an update.

Quote: Originally Posted by s1ugh34d I recently had one of these CPU's in my emachine desktop and it ran fine for the few days i had it in use, Shortly after, since i bought the pc as overstock off a local school, the computer was torn apart for parts. I sold most of them to friends and people i know, well no one wanted a CPU and the motherboard was too propietary to sell even on ebay no one would buy it, but the CPU sold. It ran fine the whole 3 days this computer was used. i removed the computer from a box from emachines, and it was new, now does emachines have some sort of block on there CPU's making it not run the full speed its should, unless its in the emachine board? The person that bought it says he PC chips motherboard suypports the CPU but he says being only able to change the FSB in the Bios settings. It only runs 1250MHz claimed by this guy, now i had it running three days before he got it, (the day i packaged it) and it ran the full 1667. Now im absolutly positive that the packing was plenty for it to get there in one peice, and if not, the worst that could have happened was a pin bent, even though it was firmly placed in a pnk CPU foam pad, My question as well is could any rattling cause such a problem? Otherwise i asked he check the Multiplier and make sure the bios isnt reading the chip incorrectly. When he gets back to me ill post an update.

His PC Chips mobo may or may not be able to change the multiplier.

Sounds like the fsb is set to 100 and the multiplier to 12.5. The fsb should be 133. 133x12.5=1667.

Sounds like a fault at his end, most likely the chip just isn't beng recognised by his setup.

PS: Does that chip have throttleing?

Quote: Originally Posted by corruptjoker Sounds like the fsb is set to 100 and the multiplier to 12.5. The fsb should be 133. 133x12.5=1667.

This is right. Loads of Socket A motherboard do that in my experiance.

Quote: Originally Posted by Reza Does that chip have throttleing?

Very unlikey - it's an old chip.

I can guarantee that the fsb is on 100 not 133.I had this same experience myself on my first build.The default setting on board was 100 so jumper on board had to be moved to 133.By the way those xp 2000+ cpu`s are great little units.Jo

I was unsure on it for i didnt run through everything just booted it up and checked the speed and waited for windows to load, dont have cpu-z on this pc, anyway thanks guys ill let him know what the fsb should be, i actually asked him this because the fsb of 100 sounded low, after research i relized the fsb should be 133, and it should be good