Doubt over overclocking?!?

[Silvester]

would you be so kind and trace the exact clock rate of the processor below, since there is an apparent dicrepancy between the original and the current clock rate (733 instead of 550). The CPU's IA Serial Number is 0000-0683-0001-8440-299B-62E1 and because I believe that you must have a registry of some kind please provide me with the information required. I suspect that the vendor of the computer has performed an overclock of the CPU using system bus frequency jumper settings on the motherboard (from normal 100 MHz FSB to 133 MHz FSB) and thus: 5.5 X 100 MHz = 550 MHz which is the original clock rate compared to 5.5. X 133 MHz = 731.5 which is the current clock rate.

P.S. The motherboard is ECS P6BAP-Me with VIA VT82C693A Apollo Pro133 chipset.

Motherboard Properties
Motherboard ID 03/02/2000-693-596-W977E-21400C-00
Motherboard Name Electronic Computer Systems (ECS)

CPU Properties
CPU Type Intel Pentium IIIE, 733 MHz (5.5 x 133)
CPU Alias Coppermine, CuMine, A80526
Original Clock 550 MHz
L1 Code Cache 16 KB
L1 Data Cache 16 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB (On-Die, ATC, Full-Speed)

CPUID Properties
CPUID Manufacturer GenuineIntel
CPUID Revision 0683h
IA Brand ID 02h (Intel Pentium III)
Platform ID 05h (Socket 370)
IA CPU Serial Number 0000-0683-0001-8440-299B-62E1
MSR 00000017 2251-0000-0000-0000
MSR 0000002A 0000-0000-C508-0000
MSR 0000011E 0000-0000-0074-27E1

Processor Properties
Manufacturer Intel
Version Pentium III
External Clock 133 MHz
Original Clock 550 MHz
Current Clock 733 MHz

 

[Big B]

http://www.intel.com/support/processors/tools/frequencyid/freqid.htm

That's Intel's Frequency ID program. It's supposed to tell if your CPU has been overclocked or not.

 

[Silvester]

Thanks, but...

The CPU was definitely oveclocked - took a little more of my precious spare time but finally the hardware detective work payed off: it was done by increasing the system bus frequency from 100 to 133 using jumper settings on the motherboard itself. Anyway, thank you so much! :)

 

[Big B]

I'm not saying you have to do this, but if the CPU was running stable at 733MHz, I'd leave it at that...but that's just me. Free speed is always a plus. On the other hand, I wouldn't buy from that company that built the PC again.