I have just gone thru this exact problem . . .almost the same configuration.

With my installation the BIOS defaults set the main side bus speed at
100Mhz.  When I changed that BIOS setting to 133 mhz it was, then,
correctly reported as 1500 Mhz.

HTH

dk

At 12:20 AM 11/30/01 +1030, you wrote:
>I have just had a system built for me using the following, MSI K7T266 Pro2
>Ru M/B, Athlon 1800 XP cpu, and 256 meg of DDR ram. According to AMD this
>processor should run at 1500 MHz, but when I run a cpu speed test program I
>have downloaded from the AMD website, it shows it running at 1150MHz. Has
>anyone any ideas on why this is?
>                                                                     Many
>thanks
>
>Trevor
>
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