A couple of days ago I posted the Athlon XP Processor Identifier Tool, which basically will tell you what AMD based Athlon XP processor you have! but did you know: Your AMD Athlon XP Processor May Really Be Faster Than You Think it Is.
Read More.... Well the guy's at Xbitlabs have a new take on this:
Our friends from a well-known OverClockers.ru web-site have found out that a site with a bloody name Bloodys.com offers its visitors this script for revealing all the information about Athlon XP CPU. Among all the technical data about the microprocessor, the script also tells you if your microprocessor was ?downgraded? from a faster chip! Apparently, there are digits in the marking of AMD Athlon XP ?Thorougbred? CPUs that describe the speed this particular CPU was designed to work at but was later ?downgraded? or maybe even ?upgraded? in certain cases. Take a look at the example of how the Athlon XP ?Thoroughbred? processors are marked:
The owner of the web-site explains that ?downgraded? in this case means that the CPU was not able to maintain full stability at the given rating with default voltage, so it was remarked to a lower model number. For example, 1700+ downgraded from 2400+ means that this CPU cannot work at 2400+ with core voltage 1.6V, but it can probably hit this and maybe even higher frequencies with voltage increase.
For More Info Warp2....Xbitlabs.com
Read More.... Well the guy's at Xbitlabs have a new take on this:
Our friends from a well-known OverClockers.ru web-site have found out that a site with a bloody name Bloodys.com offers its visitors this script for revealing all the information about Athlon XP CPU. Among all the technical data about the microprocessor, the script also tells you if your microprocessor was ?downgraded? from a faster chip! Apparently, there are digits in the marking of AMD Athlon XP ?Thorougbred? CPUs that describe the speed this particular CPU was designed to work at but was later ?downgraded? or maybe even ?upgraded? in certain cases. Take a look at the example of how the Athlon XP ?Thoroughbred? processors are marked:
The owner of the web-site explains that ?downgraded? in this case means that the CPU was not able to maintain full stability at the given rating with default voltage, so it was remarked to a lower model number. For example, 1700+ downgraded from 2400+ means that this CPU cannot work at 2400+ with core voltage 1.6V, but it can probably hit this and maybe even higher frequencies with voltage increase.
For More Info Warp2....Xbitlabs.com
