[plug] Realtek NIC and SuSE

[Ben Jensz]

Richard Meyer wrote:

>2) When Linux starts up, it gives a brief description of the CPU it's
>running on and the clockspeed. It says Athlon 1800+ running at 1500 MHz.
>Any ideas how I can get my full 2400+ speed out of this machine? I've
>studied the motherboard manual, and there is one switch, but it only talks
>about FSB speed there.
>
>Any ideas gratefully accepted.
>
>Regards
>RichardM
>  
>
Yep, thats what it'll be.  Its obviously set to the lower Front-Side Bus 
(FSB) by default (i.e. 100Mhz), so you need to set it to the higher FSB 
of 133Mhz in BIOS.

It'll have a locked multiplier of 15 on that CPU to achieve the 133Mhz 
FSB x 15 = 2Ghz (which is what the 2400+ is), hence because the FSB is 
only set to 100Mhz, its only running at 1.5Ghz (1800+ speed).

HTH :)


/ Ben