I recently upgraded to an Asus A7V333 mobo and AMD XP2000/1.67G chip (or so I thought.. ). When initially setting up my BIOS, an Asus tech informed me to set my cpu processor speed to 1.733, multiple 12.5x and fequency at 133/33.. here was his reasoning..

He informed me that the shop i purchased the AMD XP2000/1.67G chip from actually sent me an XP2100/1.733G chip.. b/c at BIOS cpu speed setting, the only options I had after installing the chip were: Manual, 1300mhz, 1733mhz and 2167mhz .. ???

Well, recently, my system has been shutting itself down and what not.. Also, I noticed my cpu temps rather high (120-140-degrees farenheit). I've read that AMD chips run hot.. but NOT that hot.. am i 'overclocking' (whatever that is??) ??

can someone please advise as to what's going on, please?? in the interim, i have set the cpu speed to 1.333G, but feel cheated.. i'm thinking maybe the company i bought the chip from shystered me and sent me an AMD 1.3G chip.. possible?? Odd thing is that the original AMD packaging, instructions, warranty booklet made no mention whatsoever as to exactly which chip it was in the package... ?? wtheck??!!

Thanks much.