Okay, I have an A8V-SLI deluxe mobo and a A64 S939 3200+ (90nm). The 3200 90nm should be at a regular clock of 2.2 ghz. In windows system info, it reads a CPU clock of 2.01 ghz. I had a similar problem with my old socket 754 3400+, but when I got the A64 drivers off of the amd.com site, it fixed it. However, this time, they did not. Also, I bought this 90nm becuase I was intereseted in overclocking because it runs much cooler...but check this out:
In the bios, it is set to "auto" for everything. I went in the bios and tried setting up the frequencies manually. I put it on a 10x multiplier and the cpu's frequency to 220 mhz. However, when I do just that, when it boots, it screams "overclocking failed" in a girly voice [a good use of technology to get me mad ] I left the voltages on auto. If it says overclocking failed...at the regular 220 x 10..2200 mhz speed, what the heck is going on? I was looking to overclock, not underclock. The windows cpu speed may be wrong, but I can't really check it in the bios. Anyone else have any ideas or similar problems?
The 90nm 3200+ would be 2.0GHz, the 130nm 3200+ would be 2.2GHz.
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Why did you switch for less performance?? the 3400+ perform way better than the 3000+, 3200+ 939 and even better than the 3500+ 939...that wasnt a smart move, unless you needed PCIe right now...
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Socket 939 chips utilise dual channel memory, this give a slight performance boost. So AMD in it infinite wisdom give the socket 939 chips higher ratings than equally clocked socket754 chips.
(Even though the performance increase from dual channel is lower than what you would get from a 200Mhz speed increase).
Yeh any socket939 that has a PR rating lower than 3500+ is 90nm. Higher than 3500+ is can be 130nm or 90nm.
I dont know if the S754 CPU's are going to be just 130nm, they will prob move them to 90nm soon enough (its cheaper for AMD that way).
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