CPU Speed Setting
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 7:38 am
I have a PC Partner motherboard with a VIA Apollo Pro133 Chipset, the BIOS is AWARD v4.51PG.
I used to have a Celeron 500 CPU but I recently managed to get hold of a working PIII 667 CPU from another old PC.
The CPU works in my PC but I have noticed no real improvement in speed compared to the PC that it came out of, where is was most definitely faster.
I have 512Mb of SDRAM. (1 x 256Mb PC133 & 1 x 256Mb PC100) - Will this influence anything? The manual mentions that mixed RAM can be used, and it recognizes the full amount.
In the BIOS, there is a CPU speed Setting, that has the following options:
Auto Detect DIMM/PCI CLK - Enabled.
Spread Spectrum - 0.25%.
CPU Host/PCI Clock - Default.
Also, in the motherboard manual, there are jumper settings that can be adjusted:
System Bus Freq & Ratio of Processor Core to System Bus Freq.
Is there any changes I should make to these to enable the processor to run at it's correct speed?
Thanks,
Shaun.
I used to have a Celeron 500 CPU but I recently managed to get hold of a working PIII 667 CPU from another old PC.
The CPU works in my PC but I have noticed no real improvement in speed compared to the PC that it came out of, where is was most definitely faster.
I have 512Mb of SDRAM. (1 x 256Mb PC133 & 1 x 256Mb PC100) - Will this influence anything? The manual mentions that mixed RAM can be used, and it recognizes the full amount.
In the BIOS, there is a CPU speed Setting, that has the following options:
Auto Detect DIMM/PCI CLK - Enabled.
Spread Spectrum - 0.25%.
CPU Host/PCI Clock - Default.
Also, in the motherboard manual, there are jumper settings that can be adjusted:
System Bus Freq & Ratio of Processor Core to System Bus Freq.
Is there any changes I should make to these to enable the processor to run at it's correct speed?
Thanks,
Shaun.