Underclocked?

[nvening]

I have a 3700+ San diego which is supposed to run @ 2.4GHz (right?)

CPUz reports it as running @ 2210.2MHz as does windows.

Is this right?

[sawyen]

3700+ only runs 2.2Ghz at stock... 4000+ and 3800+ runs 2.4Ghz... Windows is correct..

[Fatboy]

I thought it was higher? My 3500 is at stock speeds - 2.24GHz as in my sig.

[sawyen]

ABIT runs its HTT at 204Mhz rather than 200MHz.. that translate to your 2.24Ghz..

3700+ are just 'almost' 3500+ venice cores with an extra 512kB L2 and repackaged as SDiego..

3800+ and 4000+ are the true 2.4Ghz high flyers..

Speaking of which.. how did your system go Fatboy?

[Fatboy]

Yep, the socket 939 3700+ runs at 2.2GHz, whereas the socket 754 3700+ runs at 2.4GHz.

The 3500+ s939 also runs at 2.2GHz, but only has a 512Kb L2 cache rather than the 1MB that the 3700+ has.

Hope that clears things up for you.

[sawyen]

Fatboy: Did Abit replied and solved your SATA problems?

[Fatboy]

Speaking of which.. how did your system go Fatboy?

The system is up and running - although I haven't done any benchmarking yet.

I ran the fail-safe setup in the BIOS, after updating it, and got the latest SATA drivers from the Abit website. I think the thing that is throwing it out is on the Integrated Peripherals page, if you enable USB emulation then it never gets to the RAID page where it now carries on through and boots normally to windows. I had to enable the USB emulation to get the Windows initial install to recognise my keyboard, and when it rebooted becase of having it enabled it wouldn't recognise the drive.

It's a bit wierd, but its working like a charm now.

Put my IDE drives in another desktop I've got at home, and cross loaded all my documents etc (.pst files were also a priority) before formatting the disks.

I should be getting a new case, a 580W Hiper Modular PSU, 200GB SATA HDD and some new (and silvery) DVD/CDRW and DVD-ROM drives. Won't be a problem though, just going to be a case (scuse the pun) of moving everything across.

I'll then be able to re-build my old system, which is going to my dad.

[Fatboy]

Fatboy: Did Abit replied and solved your SATA problems?

Abit replied, but weren't any use really, in the end it was a tech support guy from overclockers that solved the problem.

[sawyen]

good to hear things are working out fine for you now..

[nvening]

stupid web sites telling false info, when i OC ill get it back to 2.4GHz lol

[oralpain]

The socket 754 3700+ is 2.4GHz 1M L2. The 939 3700+ is 2.2Ghz 1M L2. Was probably jsut an easily overlooked typo at the site you ordered from.