I just got an Athlon 2000XP from a friend of mine to do some testing with, and found a very very odd issue with it.
The markings on this chip are exactly what an Athlon XP 2000+ should be, all the bridges are cut the same, everything is exact. I have another 2000+ to compare to.
So the odd part is, this thing comes up on every motherboard and even under WCPUID as a Duron, the cache is the Duron 128k , The CPU ID string is a Duron.
The crazy part is the multiplier is 12.5x (as it should be for an XP 2000+), also the chip is rock solid at 1667 Mhz at 1.6 volts. So everything says it should be an Athlon XP2000+, but it just doesn't work as one.
Found this article that may be the reason.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...908004407.html
I can only suspect that the internal connections for the bridge in question are somehow broken.
Has anyone else heard of such a crazy thing?
The markings on this chip are exactly what an Athlon XP 2000+ should be, all the bridges are cut the same, everything is exact. I have another 2000+ to compare to.
So the odd part is, this thing comes up on every motherboard and even under WCPUID as a Duron, the cache is the Duron 128k , The CPU ID string is a Duron.
The crazy part is the multiplier is 12.5x (as it should be for an XP 2000+), also the chip is rock solid at 1667 Mhz at 1.6 volts. So everything says it should be an Athlon XP2000+, but it just doesn't work as one.
Found this article that may be the reason.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...908004407.html
I can only suspect that the internal connections for the bridge in question are somehow broken.
Has anyone else heard of such a crazy thing?