strange proccessor speed

My son desktop processor( amd athlon 2000+), shows as 1.24 Gh speed under win xp he. However my desktop proccessor is slower (amd athlon 1600+), but windows xp rates it as 1.41 Hz!!. Any ideas why and what can I do to rectify it?

You could read this thread for a start.

My educated guess would be is the FSB is set to 100mhz rather than 133mhz, this maybe due to the memory or because the BIOS setting is wrong (I had a PC that would sometimes drop the FSB down to 100mhz randomly)

I believe the 2000+ should run at 1.67ghz, divide this by 133 gives a multiplier of ~12.5 and 12.5 * 100mhz approximately gives you your value of 1.24ghz

Hope that helps!

what you think.....2 months from now
"my sons athlon runs at......."

"Any ideas why and what can I do to rectify it?"

Yep.. buy a new PC