CPU or capacitor?

[ronaldrover]

Hi guys, I rarely post because I am emabarrased of my lack of knowledge about computers even though I always read posts daily... anyways right to the point

Couple of months ago I was fussing around with my motherboard, when computer sucessfully booted up to the point of the desktop, then after 3 seconds computer crashed. Okay, after few retries I decide to go to bios setup and lower my cpu from 2.0ghz to 1.8 ghz, exited and saved. Rebooted, sucessful boot, everything ran well until I ran heavy programs, again computer crashes. Pushed it down 1.6ghz, pc ran and never crashed. But oh lord, you might think "geez .2ghz aint a big diffrence" oh hell no, it is extremely slow for my usage, its anoying, its

ing me off, its brutal. Getting owned by noobs in css is way too much, time to take action.

The weird part is that my A7V600-X Asus mobo reconizes a AMD Athlon MP running at 1.2 ghz instead of my old crappy socket A AMD Sempron 2800+ 2.0 ghz that I miss (CPUz results). Now I need to know whether if its my cpu thats half dead? malfunctioning? or if its any other facts such as capacitors...

I need to know because I am currently bidding on ebay for a f****** AMD Athlon 3200+ 2.2 ghz Barton Socket that a fag keeps bidding over me, and I need to know if it is my cpu to bid more than him before i lose my chance.

Thanks guys for you time!

 

[MikeEnIke]

I doubt it's your CPU. Sounds like a power supply type of problem. Some other bit of instability, tried bumping up your volts to your cpu?

 

[ronaldrover]

I doubt it's your CPU. Sounds like a power supply type of problem. Some other bit of instability, tried bumping up your volts to your cpu?

Well I dont think it could be power supply... since its new and has 520Watts unless it might be defective? My (cough cough) AGPx8 EVGA 6800 works pretty well too.