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PC BUS SPEED

Obi One Kenobi (without the Force)

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Posted August 30, 2007 at 2:32PM

A friend of mine advised me that my PC BUS speed was to slow and should be running at least 200. As I am a pc novice please could some one advise if this is correct and how it can be done?

Operating System System Model

Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b
1.85 gigahertz AMD Athlon XP
128 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: click here NF7-S/NF7,NF7-V (nVidia-nForce2) 2.X,1.0
Bus Clock: 166 megahertz
BIOS: Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG 07/06/2004
Drives Memory Modules c,d
81.95 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
51.17 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B [CD-ROM drive]
MagicISO Virtual DVD-ROM0000 [CD-ROM drive]
SONY CD-RW CRX230E [CD-ROM drive]
SONY DVD RW DW-D22A [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]

Maxtor 6Y080L0 [Hard drive] (81.96 GB) -- drive 0, s/n Y2AG8HTE, rev YAR41BW0, SMART Status: Healthy 1024 Megabytes Installed Memory

Slot 'A0' is Empty
Slot 'A1' has 512 MB
Slot 'A2' has 512 MB
Local Drive Volumes

c: (NTFS on drive 0) 81.95 GB 51.17 GB free

Network Drives

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brundle

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Posted August 30, 2007 at 2:36PM

Very few Athlon XPs were designed for 200mhz Bus Clock. You can find out if yours is capable get CPU-Z
for more detailed information about the processor; click here

You need to have memory that can handle 200mhz too

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