AMD Upgrade

[Guest Mike20]

Hi all I have just had my computer upgraded from an AMD1800+ to an AMD2.200+ but when I run a cpu test program it says it is running at 1813mhz, is this correct I thought it would have been running much faster than this I dont know a lot about computers so I would appreciate some help all I run is ms2002 and other games many thanks for any help kind regards Mike

[Guest]

yes. This is correct. The AMD 2200+ clock speed is 1.8GHz.

[Guest Max Cowgill]

Mike,the 1800+ and 2200+ are not actual clock speeds, but a "PR rating" that AMD uses to compare the performance of their processors to earlier AMD processors (or so they say), but they're really meant to make you think they're equal to a Pentium 4 of the same clock speed as their PR rating. Therefore, an Athlon XP 2200+ should perform about the same as a Pentium 4 2.2GHz (2200MHz), being faster in some situations, and slower in others but basically balancing out to about the same speed.hope this helps, Max Cowgill

[Guest Mike20]

Many thanks Max and others this has cleared it up no end as I thought it was running same as the 1800xp I took out so thanks regards to all Mike