Which processor AMD Athlon does I have, based on lshw and dmesg informations...?
here is a dmesg extract
Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset Initializing cgroup subsys cpu Linux version 3.0.21-tinycore (root@box) (gcc version 4.6.1 (GCC) ) #3021 SMP Sat Feb 18 11:54:11 EET 2012 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002fff0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000002fff0000 - 000000002fff8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 000000002fff8000 - 0000000030000000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffee0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) Notice: NX (Execute Disable) protection missing in CPU! DMI 2.3 present. DMI: American Megatrends Inc. Uknown/K7S8X., BIOS P2.20 10/07/2003 e820 update range: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000010000 (usable) ==> (reserved) e820 remove range: 00000000000a0000 - 0000000000100000 (usable) last_pfn = 0x2fff0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000 MTRR default type: uncachable MTRR fixed ranges enabled: 00000-9FFFF write-back A0000-BFFFF uncachable C0000-DFFFF write-protect E0000-EFFFF uncachable F0000-FFFFF write-protect MTRR variable ranges enabled: 0 base 000000000 mask FE0000000 write-back 1 base 020000000 mask FF0000000 write-back 2 disabled 3 disabled 4 disabled 5 disabled 6 disabled 7 base 0D0000000 mask FFC000000 write-combining x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106 found SMP MP-table at [c00fbc70] fbc70 initial memory mapped : 0 - 00c00000 Base memory trampoline at [c009b000] 9b000 size 16384 init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000002fff0000 0000000000 - 0000400000 page 4k 0000400000 - 002fc00000 page 2M 002fc00000 - 002fff0000 page 4k kernel direct mapping tables up to 2fff0000 @ bfb000-c00000 RAMDISK: 2facb000 - 2ffef000 ACPI: RSDP 000fab70 00014 (v00 AMI ) ACPI: RSDT 2fff0000 0002C (v01 AMIINT SiS740XX 00001000 MSFT 0100000B) ACPI: FACP 2fff0030 00081 (v01 AMIINT SiS740XX 00000011 MSFT 0100000B) ACPI: DSDT 2fff0120 032B4 (v01 SiS 746 00000100 MSFT 0100000D) ACPI: FACS 2fff8000 00040 ACPI: APIC 2fff00c0 0005A (v01 AMIINT SiS740XX 00001000 MSFT 0100000B) ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 0MB HIGHMEM available. 767MB LOWMEM available. mapped low ram: 0 - 2fff0000 low ram: 0 - 2fff0000 Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0x00000010 -> 0x00001000 Normal 0x00001000 -> 0x0002fff0 HighMem empty Movable zone start PFN for each node early_node_map[2] active PFN ranges 0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009f 0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0002fff0 On node 0 totalpages: 196479 free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c053fbc0, node_mem_map ef4cb200 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 3951 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 1504 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 190992 pages, LIFO batch:31 Using APIC driver default ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 17, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level) ACPI: IRQ0 used by override. ACPI: IRQ2 used by override. ACPI: IRQ9 used by override. Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs nr_irqs_gsi: 40 PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009f000 - 00000000000a0000 PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000 PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 30000000:cec00000) Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:8 nr_cpumask_bits:8 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1 PERCPU: Embedded 11 pages/cpu @ef000000 s24128 r0 d20928 u4194304 pcpu-alloc: s24128 r0 d20928 u4194304 alloc=1*4194304 pcpu-alloc: [0] 0 Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 194943 Kernel command line: vga=788 quiet showapps pause nozswap tce=UUID="12a06846-af2f-4e91-ba6d-5bdee7378558" lst=asrockxorg.lst mydata=fx5200 pci=use_crs initrd=/tce/boot/core.gz BOOT_IMAGE=/tce/boot/vmlinuz PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Initializing CPU#0 allocated 3145216 bytes of page_cgroup please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups Initializing HighMem for node 0 (00000000:00000000) Memory: 765372k/786368k available (3168k kernel code, 20544k reserved, 1202k data, 436k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xfff15000 - 0xfffff000 ( 936 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xf07f0000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 240 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xefff0000 ( 767 MB) .init : 0xc0545000 - 0xc05b2000 ( 436 kB) .data : 0xc041833b - 0xc0544e40 (1202 kB) .text : 0xc0100000 - 0xc041833b (3168 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...Ok. Hierarchical RCU implementation. NR_IRQS:512 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=eec0a000 soft=eec0c000 Console: colour dummy device 80x25 console [tty0] enabled Fast TSC calibration using PIT Detected 1099.922 MHz processor. Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 2200.50 BogoMIPS (lpj=3666406) pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Initializing cgroup subsys memory Initializing cgroup subsys devices Initializing cgroup subsys freezer Initializing cgroup subsys blkio Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event mce: CPU supports 4 MCE banks SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 12k freed ACPI: Core revision 20110413 Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) XP stepping 00 Performance Events: AMD PMU driver. ... version: 0 ... bit width: 48 ... generic registers: 4 ... value mask: 0000ffffffffffff ... max period: 00007fffffffffff ... fixed-purpose events: 0 ... event mask: 000000000000000f Brought up 1 CPUs Total of 1 processors activated (2200.50 BogoMIPS). ..... the lshw extract box description: Desktop Computer product: Uknown vendor: American Megatrends Inc. version: 1.0 serial: 00000000 width: 32 bits capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3 smp-1.1 smp configuration: chassis=desktop cpus=1 *-core description: Motherboard product: K7S8X. physical id: 0 version: 3.0 serial: 00000000 *-firmware description: BIOS vendor: American Megatrends Inc. physical id: 0 version: P2.20 date: 10/07/2003 size: 64KiB capacity: 192KiB capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int17printer int10video acpi usb agp ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification *-cpu description: CPU product: AMD Athlon(tm) XP vendor: Hynix Semiconductor (Hyundai Electronics) physical id: 4 bus info: cpu@0 version: 6.10.0 slot: Socket-A size: 1100MHz capacity: 3GHz width: 32 bits clock: 100MHz capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow up *-cache:0 description: L1 cache physical id: 5 slot: Internal Cache size: 128KiB capacity: 1MiB capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified *-cache:1 description: L2 cache physical id: 6 slot: Internal Cache size: 512KiB capacity: 1MiB capabilities: synchronous internal write-back unified *-memory description: System memory physical id: 1 size: 1015MiB .... It seems to an AMD Athlon XP. But Which version? According the MoBo spec, it can accept an Athlon XP 3000+ FSB 333MHz Cache 512kb But I cannot see that 3000+ term in the linux messages. The reason is: should I buy a quicker one in eBay.. or not necessary? Thanks for any help. |
It might be beneficial to update the bios of your motherboard so that your processor is recognized.
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Come on, you are a long time member, you should know how to use code-tags for posting your output.
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Since your mainboard doesn't seem to support the models with 200MHz FSB I would go with setting the FSB to 166MHz in the BIOS, this way the CPU will run fine. Quote:
AthlonXP with 2.5GHz rating, 1GB of RAM, a fine system for a distro with XFCE or something lighter, I would think. |
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The only way to be certain is to look physically on the processor. I also considered that it could be a xp 2500+ or 3200+ but it can also be that the frontside bus multiplier is in his default position. and that the processor actually a higher multiplier can handle.
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The multiplier on AthlonXPs is locked.
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If it weren't for the fan noise I wished I had more of those machines. jlinkels |
with my board I can choose any multiplier I want GA-7VAXP the processor obviously does not like all multipliers but it works for different multipliers.
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As stated before, on an unmodified AthlonXP the multiplicator is hardware-locked. No way for your board to change that. But may be you have a modified XP, they could be unlocked with a pencil or silver conductive paint, connectin the right bridges on the CPU.
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Not that the 80 odd watt TDP on even the fastest of athlon XPs is that high compared to the 3GHz+ P4s, and power consumption for the athlon is a lot better than the P4. Quote:
You might not notice the any difference from X.XGHz and Y.YGHz when you are comparing the same CPU. I ran a lot of athlon and athlon XP CPUs. There was a big difference between the T'Bird 1200C (1.2GHZ, 133MHz FSB, 256k cache) and the T'bred 2200+ (1.8GHz, 133MHz FSB, 256k cache). Less difference but still pickable was between T'bred 2200+ and Barton 2500+ (1.83GHz, 166MHZ FSB, 512k cache). *edit- the OP is running 1100MHZ @ 100MHz FSB, there should a big difference in performance compared to 1833MHz @ 166MHz FSB. IMO that is more than enough of a clocking difference that a user should be able to tell the difference in at least some cases. Quote:
Cheap and nasty fix- remove the heatsink (after all this time, the paste would be dead anyway), remove the stock craptacular fan, and replace it with a good 80/92/120mm fan, held on with whatever works. I've used woodscrews, wire and zipties in the past. It ends up either much cooler, much quieter or both, depending on what fan you use and the stock heatsink. Quote:
IIRC some KT400/KT600 chipset boards can also unlock. I cant remember for sure, by the time the KT400 was out I'd decided to avoid VIA for at least a while. |
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Edit: OK, it seems that we both are right, I found this link, have a look at section 5 for more info: http://www.ocinside.de/go_e.html?htt...overclock.html |
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http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S8X ... FSB 333/266/200 MHz So, I will have a look which FSB is set. And: THANKS TO ALL. That Athlon XP seems to be interesting. I will post any progress (FSB change, BIOS upgrade). |
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