939 Athlon 3800+ x2 = Toledo or Manchester?

[phatboy]

Have seen both chips up for grabs at VERY good prices, just wondering which has the better potential, or are they just as good an overclocker as the other?

Cheers

Ben

 

[phatboy]

cheers dude, will keep that in mind, i have a Freezer 64 Pro unit on mine, so that should suffice nicely

Ben

 

[phatboy]

New chip arrived today, and its a toledo

Running currently at 2.55ghz happily, doesnt seem to want to post above that atm.....could well be the default BIOS settings playing silly buggers

Ram im using is GEIL DDR400 Value, currently at 208mhz (416mhz ddr) had it at 432mhz DDR no worries with old Venice, so hoping it can keep up with a good clock speed on this

Ben

 

[phatboy]

when i run CPU-Z i cant choose between the first or second core, is there something i have to do in windows to activate dual core usage or nething ?

Cheers

Ben

 

[phatboy]

just out of curiousity, what mem timings are people using to get the clocks that high?

 

[phatboy]

to be honest, going from single to dual core is that easy

all i did was take out the old chip, add new paste to my Freezer 64 and away i went

you have to make sure you system is selected as a "multi processor computer" in the system, but that is about it mate.

just make sure you set everything to stock in the BIOS just to be safe before you do the switch

after installing the chip download the AMD dual core optimiser, seems to speed things up a lil bit on certain apps

Good luck

Ben

 

[phatboy]

you can check if it is set up as a multi cpu machine by going to:

Control panel > system > hardware > device manager. And then clicking on "computer" drop down, this should tell you what your system is set as. when i installed my Dual Core it automatically recognised the new chip and did it all for me, good idea to check just incase tho.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/2500/systemyl0.jpg

look at screeny above, right hand side shows the drop down

Ben